A family dispute in Birmingham, Alabama, in December 2019 ended with 5-year-old Ta'Narius T. J. Moore Jr. struck in the head by a stray bullet. He was riding inside a vehicle when the shooting occurred outside an apartment complex and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Authorities arrested 29-year-old Rickkia Allen, identified as the child’s cousin, and charged her with capital murder; the charge was elevated because the child was inside a vehicle when hit. In October 2020 a grand jury indicted Allen and the state announced it would seek the death penalty. Reports from the time named the boy’s mother as also involved in the altercation, and noted that the boy’s father had been a victim of gun violence two years earlier.

Are there witnesses or new information about what happened outside the apartment that night?