On the evening of October 13, 2024, Cleveland police found a vehicle with two unresponsive occupants in the 16000 block of Euclid Beach Boulevard. Both occupants, 19-year-old Mikayla Janay Franklin and 19-year-old Damarion Bailey, had sustained gunshot wounds and were taken to University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead. Investigators believe the shooting may have occurred near the 16100 block of Lakeshore Boulevard and that the vehicle came to rest on Euclid Beach Boulevard.

Mikayla Janay Franklin was born June 23, 2005, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Willie Bowman and Nakia Franklin. Funeral arrangements are with Slone & Co. Funeral Directors. The Cleveland Police Homicide Unit is investigating; no suspects have been identified and no arrests have been announced.

If anyone has information about the shootings or either victim’s movements that evening, please contact the Cleveland Police Homicide Unit.