Zariah Finley Dodd was 16 when she was found shot to death in the grass at Marivue Park in west Phoenix near 55th Avenue and Osborn Road on the morning of July 5, 2025. She had left a group home in Surprise the night before, telling staff she was going for a walk and never returned. Fire personnel pronounced her dead at the scene after Phoenix police arrived around 5:58 a.m. A baby girl she was about 22 weeks pregnant with, whom Zariah had planned to name Zaloni, also died in the shooting.

Zariah had spent much of her life in Arizona’s child welfare system, moving through roughly 20 group homes and foster placements. Her kinship caregiver and a former group home manager said she should not have been allowed to walk out alone that night and her family publicly questioned how a teenager under state supervision became pregnant and then was killed in a park. Investigators traced her last movements to the group home and gathered information from people who knew her.

By late July and early August 2025, authorities identified and arrested two suspects: 36-year-old Jurrell Davis and 18-year-old Jechri James-Gillett.

Does anyone have information about Zariah’s time at the group home or her contacts in the days before July 5, 2025?