Kiara Tatum was 18 and a student at LeMoyne-Owen College when she was killed on New Year’s Day 2017 in Memphis, Tennessee. She had hoped to become a nurse. The death was the city’s first homicide of the year.

In the early evening Kiara was among a group in the Parkway Village neighborhood when two people got out of a vehicle and opened fire into the crowd. Kiara was struck and the shooters fled. Police arrested two suspects within days: 22-year-old Devante Robinson and 17-year-old Jaylen Clayton. Both were charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and other felonies; Clayton was charged as an adult. Robinson was reportedly out on bond for a prior offense at the time of the shooting. In November 2017 a grand jury indicted both on the charges.

If anyone was in Parkway Village that evening or has information about the shooting, please share what is known.