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Patricia Draper Bryant, a 55-year-old Black woman, was killed on May 16, 2020, in Memphis after a neighborhood dispute between several women escalated across the street. While standing in her front yard holding her one-year-old grandson, she was struck in the chest by a stray bullet. Emergency responders took her to a hospital where she later died; the child was unharmed.

The shooting was captured live on Facebook as the argument and later vandalism unfolded. Police identified 39-year-old Darrell Peterson as the shooter; he surrendered to U.S. Marshals days after the incident and was later indicted on multiple charges connected to the killing and related offenses. Two women, Bernautica McClure and Debra Prettie, were indicted on vandalism charges for their part in the earlier altercation.

Patricia Bryant was a mother of three and a grandmother of seven, remembered by family as loving and caring.