A shooting on the evening of Saturday, February 8, 2025, in the 600 block of Eastview Circle in Americus, Georgia, left 5-year-old Peyton Brielle Roberts fatally wounded. Peyton was taken to Phoebe Sumter Hospital and died of her injuries. Nineteen-year-old Jotavis Roshon Leverette was also critically injured that night and later died; a third person was wounded and expected to survive.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called in to lead the inquiry. In the days after the shooting, law enforcement arrested three people: 19-year-old Ricky Martin was arrested February 10 and charged with murder, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery; 20-year-old Ny'Tavion Smith was arrested February 13 on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault; and on March 7 a 17-year-old, Farley Arthur Watts III, was charged with felony murder, aggravated assault, and theft by receiving stolen property. The circumstances that led to the shooting have not been publicly detailed.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Eastview Circle that night or has information about how it began, please share what is known with investigators.