Shanye Mootry was 18 when she was killed by a stray bullet in Rochester, New York, on May 29, 2023. She was a passenger sitting in a car in a parking lot behind the Anthony Jordan Health Center on Holland Street after a large gathering moved there, and was not involved in the altercation when gunfire broke out between two groups.

The Rochester Police Department identified 18-year-old Naveair Stewart as connected to the shooting. An indictment charging Stewart with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in relation to Shanye’s death was unsealed. Court filings later show Stewart pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree manslaughter for the deaths of Shanye Mootry and another bystander, Jevonte Huff, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison with five years of post-release supervision.

Shanye was described in the case as an innocent bystander whose life was taken in senseless violence. Does anyone have information about the gathering that night or remembers seeing the area behind the Anthony Jordan Health Center on May 29, 2023?