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A 16-year-old student’s life ended after a dispute at a high school basketball game in Phoenix. On the night of February 20, 2015, Niani Rayshawn Allen was a passenger in a sedan that left Cesar Chavez High School’s parking lot when an SUV began following them. Near 67th Avenue and Broadway Road, a passenger in the SUV fired a gun through the passenger window and struck Niani in the head; she was the only occupant hit. Friends drove her to a nearby Walmart for help and she was taken to Phoenix Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Police tracked the suspect SUV to an apartment complex, pursued and apprehended 18-year-old Jason Christopher Lindsey after a foot chase, and recovered a discarded firearm that later bore Lindsey’s fingerprints. He was charged with first-degree murder, drive-by shooting and three counts of aggravated assault. A jury found him guilty in November 2018 and a judge sentenced him to life in February 2019.

Did anyone who attended that game or who knew Niani notice anything about the confrontation in the parking lot that night?