Mecca India Tyshea Gravette was 23 when she was fatally shot on May 3, 2018, in Washington, D.C. She and 25-year-old Sukarno Turner were found with gunshot wounds inside a car on the 3700 block of 1st Street SE. Gravette was pronounced dead at the scene; Turner was taken to hospital and later died.

Investigators say the attack was a drive-by: shooters pulled alongside the victims’ rideshare vehicle in a white sedan, opened fire, and fled. Later inquiry linked Turner to a separate police-conspiracy matter centered on a former MPD civilian employee, Ronnika Jennings. Authorities charged Jennings with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, alleging she leaked confidential police information to associates connected to gang activity; Turner was described as a close associate of a man charged in that separate murder. It is not known if Gravette had any connection to that case.

Two years after Mecca’s death, her younger sister, Cyhneil Smith, was also shot and killed in a vehicle a few miles from this scene. Does anyone have information about Mecca, her movements that night, or the white sedan seen near 1st Street SE?