A two-year-old girl, identified in reports as Kamiya LaShawn Gross and also named Kamiya LaShawn French, was killed in a targeted shooting in Inkster, Michigan, on July 1, 2014. Kamiya was sitting in a car with her father, Kenneth French, and a family friend when a man approached the vehicle and opened fire; all three occupants were struck. Kenneth French and the family friend survived, but Kamiya died from a gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators determined the attack was a planned act of revenge aimed at Kenneth French. Two men, Raymone Jackson, then 25, and Raphael Hearn, then 30, were identified in connection with the crime. Jackson was alleged to be the shooter and Hearn the getaway driver. Both men were arrested, tried, and convicted; Jackson was convicted of first-degree murder, torture, multiple assault counts, felon in possession of a firearm and related firearm charges, and Hearn was convicted of first-degree murder. In March 2015 both received life sentences without the possibility of parole. The judge called the crime among the most heinous encountered, and Kamiya’s parents read emotional impact statements at sentencing.