Marlene Uziya Rashidi was 20 when she was shot and killed in the early morning hours of June 26, 2016, while sitting in a car near Portia and Adams streets in Lincoln, Nebraska. Another woman in the vehicle, 23-year-old Desiree Mann, was also shot and taken to hospital in critical but stable condition. Authorities believe the vehicle may have resembled one involved in an earlier altercation with the suspect.

Rashidi was a sophomore at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, studying political science with aspirations to become a public defender. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she and her family lived as refugees in South Africa and Zimbabwe before moving to Lincoln in 2009; she graduated from Lincoln High School in 2014 and was also a poet and a thrower on the university track team.

Police identified 22-year-old Sir Michael Kennedy as a suspect. Several hours after the shooting, officers located Kennedy; when he reportedly raised a weapon in a threatening manner he was shot and killed by police. Does anyone who knew Marlene or who was in that area that night have information that could help clarify what happened?