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Michelle Coleman was a 21-year-old nursing student at Florida A&M University when she was shot at a birthday party in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood on July 6, 2009. Three armed men dressed in black opened fire on the crowd at about 12:45 a.m., injuring 12 people. Coleman sustained multiple gunshot wounds to her chest, kidney, and liver and died the next day on July 7, 2009. She had recently learned she was pregnant.

A 17-year-old high school football player, Anthony Smith, later died of wounds from the same shooting on July 9, 2009. The attack was reported to be retaliatory after the party host, Lawrence Smith, was said to have been involved in a shooting with a group of Liberty City drug dealers the night before. Eighteen-year-old Rodney Miller was arrested in August 2009 and charged with two counts of second-degree murder but was released in August 2013 after nearly four years in custody when prosecutors cited insufficient evidence to proceed. Michelle Coleman’s family continues to seek justice for her and her unborn child.

Does anyone have information about the July 6, 2009 shooting or knew Michelle Coleman?