On August 28, 2022, 17-year-old Jamarrien Monroe was shot and killed outside a home on Steel Dust Drive in Fort Worth, Texas. The attack also killed Monroe’s 5-year-old cousin, Rayshard Javon Scott; an 18-month-old child was injured. Witness accounts say two men exited a car wearing masks and carrying guns, then fired more than a dozen rounds into the garage where children were playing.

Authorities later arrested 16-year-old Jay Shawn Nixon-Clark and 21-year-old Anthony Bell-Johnson and charged them with capital murder. At trial Nixon-Clark, who was 19 by then, was found guilty and received an automatic life sentence. Bell-Johnson underwent a psychological evaluation and was awaiting trial as of these reports. Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Melinda Hogan described the shooting as an unprovoked attack on innocent children; Monroe’s mother, Tijuana West, addressed Nixon-Clark in court about the family’s loss.

What does anyone remember about that night on Steel Dust Drive or the children who were there?