KeAisa Kyneshia Young was a 16-year-old Black girl from Sylvester, Georgia, who was shot and killed late on June 15, 2024. Sylvester police were called about 11:15 p.m. to the 200 block of Shipp Lane, where they found her suffering from a gunshot wound. She had been visiting friends when the shooting occurred.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation became involved after the Sylvester Police Department requested assistance. Investigators identified a suspect as 14-year-old Kortezz Thomas of Sylvester and obtained arrest warrants. On June 20, 2024, Thomas turned himself in at the Sylvester Police Department and was taken into custody on a felony murder charge; he was to be held at a Youth Detention Center and the GBI said the file would be forwarded to the Tift Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for review and prosecution.

The public details remain limited about what led to the shooting and who else, if anyone, may have been involved. Does anyone have information about KeAisa, the events that night, or the neighborhood around Shipp Lane?