On the afternoon of February 13, 2021, a drive-by shooting in the 500 block of Pleasant Springs Drive in Tuskegee, Alabama, sent a stray bullet into the wrong place at the wrong time. Four-year-old Davion DaeDae Tarver, a Black male child, was critically wounded and transported to Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. He died of his injuries on February 15, 2021.

Tuskegee police arrested 18-year-old Joshua Washington on February 14, initially on attempted murder charges that were upgraded to capital murder after Davion’s death. Investigators later arrested 18-year-old Emanuel Howard Jr. on charges including firing into an occupied vehicle and attempted murder, and 18-year-old Tremont Jerido Jr. on capital murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling. A candlelight vigil on February 18 drew hundreds who came to mourn the boy.

What details about that afternoon might help explain how a child came to be struck by a stray bullet?