Fourteen-year-old Christy Phu, a freshman at Chief Sealth International High School, was shot and killed inside her family’s home in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood after a dispute over a pair of Michael Jordan sneakers her father had given her. The confrontation involved texts and in-person arguments with her 24-year-old uncle, Si Phu, who demanded the shoes and threatened to kill Christy and her cousin. Christy and a 16-year-old cousin barricaded themselves in a bedroom, but Si Phu forced the door open with a handgun, pointed it at Christy’s head and fired a single shot.

Family members found Christy bleeding and rushed her to Harborview Medical Center, where she died of a gunshot wound to the head. Si Phu fled, was located and arrested two days later in the Skyway area, and was charged with first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm.