Miana Luckett was 34 when she was shot on February 22, 2022, in the 1500 block of North Capitol Street NE in Washington, D.C. Officers found her on the sidewalk at about 3:39 p.m. with a single gunshot wound to the chest; she was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Luckett was a mother to three daughters.

An arrest followed: on March 7, 2022, members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force took 23-year-old Ronnie Thorne into custody and charged him with second-degree murder while armed in connection with the shooting. At a court hearing on May 13, 2022, Thorne pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while armed under a plea agreement that recommended a nine-year prison term. The plea deeply upset Luckett’s family; her father asked the judge for a harsher sentence, saying she was his only child.