JaKamori Kamori Lake was 16 when she was fatally shot in the head at the Gables Apartments in Gulfport, Mississippi, in the spring of 2023. She was three and a half months pregnant; a private vehicle brought her to Memorial Hospital at Gulfport but she was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at 1:32 p.m. on that Sunday afternoon.

Investigators initially had few details and said someone dropped her at the hospital’s ambulance bay and left. The Gulfport Police Department questioned several people and within a day arrested four teenagers. Fifteen-year-old Brenton Brumfield was charged with second-degree murder in JaKamori’s death and with the homicide of her unborn child; his bond was set at $500,000. Nineteen-year-old Jamarrion Jackson and two juveniles, ages 17 and 13, were charged with hindering prosecution; Jackson’s bond was set at $25,000. Brumfield and Jackson were taken to the Harrison County Adult Detention Center; the younger suspects were placed in the Harrison County Youth Detention Center.

Are there readers who knew JaKamori or who have information about what happened that afternoon?