Jamahri Rome Sydnor was 17 and headed to Florida A&M University that fall when she was killed in Washington, D.C., on August 10, 2017. Driving her 12-year-old nephew home from a barbershop, she passed through the intersection of Saratoga and Montana Avenues NE when more than ten shots were fired across the busy junction in a gang-related exchange. A stray bullet pierced the passenger window of her Honda Accord and struck Jamahri in the head. She lost control of the car and it struck a parked vehicle; her nephew was cut by flying glass. Three other people were wounded in the volley, including a man in a wheelchair who shattered his leg while trying to take cover.

Jamahri had recently graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School, where she had been captain of the cheerleading squad. Her mother had served as a D.C. Police homicide detective. Investigators later identified two shooters, Robert Moses and James Mayfield, and a getaway driver, Philip McDaniel, who was arrested hours after the shooting and became a key witness for prosecutors. Moses was arrested in October 2017 and Mayfield in December 2017. A jury found Moses and Mayfield guilty in December 2022, and they were sentenced in September 2024.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see the shooting or recognize the car the shooters used?