Latreese Lay Lay Deveann Moten was 7 when she was killed in a drive-by shooting on February 17, 2022, in Glendale, Arizona. She was sitting in the backseat of her mother’s car when bullets struck her in the head and knee; doctors were unable to save her. Family and community members later gathered at Grand Canal Linear Park, where she had been seen playing, to release balloons on what would have been her eighth birthday and remember her energetic, joyful nature.

Police identified a suspect named Terry Armstrong as part of the investigation. The family’s grief was publicly expressed after the loss of a child in an apparently random act of gun violence.

If anyone knew Latreese, was at Grand Canal Linear Park that day, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.