Six-year-old Nyiah Courtney was riding her scooter near her family in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on the night of July 16, 2021, when a car drove by the intersection of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenues SE and someone inside opened fire. Nyiah, remembered as a bubbly child who loved to dance and wanted to be a firefighter, was fatally wounded; five adults, including her mother and father, suffered non-life-threatening gunshot injuries. Police officers nearby rushed Nyiah to a hospital in their patrol car, but she was pronounced dead.

Investigators said the shooting was not random and that Nyiah’s father, Nico Griffin, was believed to be the intended target; Griffin had been indicted on federal drug and firearms charges two days earlier. Authorities offered a $60,000 reward and sought a silver or gray four-door sedan seen on surveillance footage. On July 28, 2021, Marktwan Hargraves, 22, of Waldorf, Maryland, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder while armed; prosecutors cited cell phone data, witness statements, and text messages in which Hargraves allegedly expressed remorse after learning a six-year-old had been killed.

A judge later found there was substantial probability to move the case forward and Hargraves was held without bond as proceedings continued. Does anyone have information about the vehicle seen at the scene or other details that could help clarify what happened that night?