Justina Wallace, 36, was shot and killed on the evening of July 7, 2023, in the Norwood neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama. She was holding her two-year-old daughter Sky when the shooting occurred, with other young children nearby. Wallace, six months pregnant with her sixth child, was taken to a local hospital and died the following day.

Police say the shooting followed an argument between Wallace and 21-year-old Aaniyah Nowden; both women reportedly had children by the same man and Nowden was also pregnant. Nowden was taken into custody and later charged with capital murder on the grounds that the victim was killed in the presence of her children. She was booked into the Jefferson County Jail and held without bond; at an emergency bond hearing her attorney sought release on electronic monitoring citing pregnancy complications including high blood pressure and preeclampsia.

Friends and family described Wallace as a devoted, hardworking mother. Two days after the shooting they went ahead with a planned birthday party for Sky as a way to honor what they believed her mother would have wanted. Does anyone have information about the events that led to the confrontation that night?