Two-year-old Manariah Isebella Nova Bradsher was shot in a drive-by on June 20, 2024, at the Campus Crossings apartments on East Cornwallis Road in Durham, North Carolina. She suffered a critical gunshot wound to the forehead while seated in the backseat of a vehicle with her mother, Shycresha Spears, who received a graze wound to the head. Manariah died of her injuries on June 27, 2024.

Known to family as Nova, she was remembered for a bright personality and close bond with her father. Durham County Sheriff Clarence F. Birkhead attended her funeral at Antioch Baptist Church and urged community solidarity, calling the shooting random and asking anyone with information to come forward. No arrests have been announced and the Durham Police Department is continuing its investigation.

If anyone has information that could help identify the people responsible, please share what you know with the Durham Police Department.