On the evening of August 29, 2023, 6-year-old Ajahliyah Hashim was inside her family’s home in the Carver Shores neighborhood of Orlando with her mother when a car drove down the 1100 block of Poppy Avenue and opened fire on the house. Ajahliyah was struck in the head and taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children with critical injuries; her mother suffered gunshot wounds to both legs and was treated at Orlando Health. A 19-year-old man, Isaiyah Wright, was also killed after being dropped off at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee and pronounced dead.

Ajahliyah died of her injuries on August 31, 2023. Orlando police have said the attack stemmed from a gang dispute between a group known as the 438 gang and another called the Carver Shores boys, and investigators described the shooting as a tragic mistake—Ajahliyah and her mother were not the intended targets. Within weeks multiple suspects were arrested and charged in connection with the killings.

Does anyone in Carver Shores remember activity or incidents in late August 2023 that might help clarify how the dispute escalated?