On the evening of February 7, 2021, 22-year-old Dajae Davis was inside her Memphis apartment with her 2-year-old daughter when a neighboring dispute ended in a stray bullet striking her in the chest. The altercation began in the adjacent unit when Marveona Roper reportedly threatened another woman with a knife and injured that woman’s cousin. Roper’s boyfriend, Cliff Swift, fired a shot that hit the other woman’s lower leg; as a man fled into a breezeway Swift fired again and that second bullet penetrated the wall into Davis’s apartment.

Police found a bullet hole in the shared wall and discovered Davis deceased; her daughter, who was beside her, was uninjured. A grand jury later indicted Cliff Swift, 20, on first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony, and indicted Marveona Roper, 19, on two counts of aggravated assault. Does anyone have information about Davis’s life in that building or about the apartment complex that could help clarify how the shot passed through into her unit?