On January 12, 2018, a shooting in North Nashville left three people dead and others wounded. Five-year-old SaMaii Rain Daniel and her eight-year-old sister Samma’Rie Breeze Daniel were shot in the head during an attack at their family home; their mother suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Shortly after, a 70-year-old man identified as Robert Payne was shot and killed during an apparent carjacking of a gold Chevrolet Impala; the passenger was shot and pistol-whipped and survived with critical injuries.

The person accused in the attacks is 24-year-old Queshan Brooks, described as the girls’ stepbrother. After fleeing the home, he allegedly carjacked the Impala, shot the two men inside, and drove onto Interstate 40 where the vehicle spun off the roadway. Officers tracked footprints in the snow and arrested Brooks walking along the interstate; he was charged with three counts of murder for the deaths of SaMaii, Samma’Rie and Robert Payne.

Does anyone have information about SaMaii’s life in North Nashville or details about that afternoon that could help clarify what happened?