On August 11, 2023, 18-year-old Brooklyn Sims was fatally shot seven times while working as a contract employee at the Home Depot on Davis Highway in Escambia County, Florida. The shooter was identified as 20-year-old Keith Agee, the father of her 2-year-old daughter, Kacey; Brooklyn died at the scene. Agee was arrested shortly afterward outside Mellow Mushroom on Bayou Boulevard following a call he made to police.

Text messages introduced at trial between Agee and his mother, Sheila Agee, were presented as evidence that the killing was premeditated. During his testimony Agee said he did not initially intend to kill Sims and became enraged during a confrontation about an STD he believed he had contracted; the state introduced evidence that Sims did not have an STD. The judge characterized the case as a textbook definition of premeditated murder. Agee was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder and received a mandatory life sentence without parole.

Brooklyn’s mother, Cornelia Sims, is raising Brooklyn’s daughter Kacey. The community held a balloon release at Davis Park in Citronelle, Alabama, to remember Brooklyn. Sheila Agee is charged with first-degree premeditated murder and remains in Escambia County Jail awaiting trial. Does anyone have information about Brooklyn’s final hours at the store or about witnesses who were present that day?