Anitra Reyonna Holloman was 21 when she was killed on September 21, 2024, outside the Hush Lounge in Birmingham’s Five Points South. While waiting in line during a Saturday night celebration, multiple gunmen fired more than 100 rounds into the crowd; Anitra was struck and died at the scene. Three other people were killed and 17 were wounded in the attack.

A student at Lawson State who hoped to become a teacher, Anitra was described by her mother as a beautiful person with a big smile who loved her family and was a devoted mother to her young daughter. The child had already lost her father to gun violence two years earlier and now had lost her mother as well.

Police called the shooting not random and launched a major investigation. Authorities arrested four men — Damien McDaniel, Naquin Lawler, Cresan McLemore Bruce, and Hatarius Woods — each charged with capital murder and multiple counts of first-degree assault and held in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Investigators say the attack may have been linked to a murder-for-hire plot and that one intended target was among those killed that night.

If anyone knew Anitra, was at Five Points South that night, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.