On the afternoon of December 21, 2025, 13-year-old Jaleeyah Tune, known to family as Lee Lee, was fatally shot while walking home in the 200 block of Alpha Court near the Alpha Arms Apartments in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The group of children had been returning from getting food when gunfire erupted from nearby bushes or woods; Jaleeyah was struck around 4:30 p.m. Her 14-year-old sister J’Sheeyah was with her, turned after hearing the shots and held Jaleeyah until first responders arrived. Jaleeyah was pronounced dead at the scene.

She was a seventh-grade student and a cheerleader; her mother, Whitney Brown-Tune, described the family’s devastation at losing a daughter just days before Christmas. Law enforcement launched a homicide investigation and within 24 hours arrested three teenage suspects: two 16-year-old males identified in court documents as Gier Smith and Josh Jordan, and a 15-year-old whose name was withheld. All three were charged with first-degree murder and felony conspiracy and were held in a juvenile detention facility awaiting court proceedings. The attack may have been planned, although a clear motive was not reported; the victim’s sister said they did not know the boys who attacked them.

Does anyone have information about what happened that afternoon or knew Jaleeyah and her family?