On the evening of September 25, 2021, 15-year-old Shemiah Davis was struck by multiple gunshot wounds on the first block of Bellevue Avenue in Trenton, New Jersey. A ShotSpotter alert went off around 6:45 p.m.; officers found Shemiah at the scene and she was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Three other young people were also hit that night: a 19-year-old woman, later identified as Candice Ruff, who suffered a gunshot to the head and died on October 4; a 17-year-old male shot in the leg who was reported in stable condition; and a 19-year-old female critically injured with multiple gunshot wounds.

The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and Trenton Police investigated; by December 2021 two teenagers had been arrested — a 17-year-old from Trenton on December 1 and a 16-year-old from Hamilton on December 8, the latter taken into custody in McDonough, Georgia. A third 16-year-old from Trenton was arrested on July 25, 2022. Two older teens, named Almere Barnes and Isaiah Lee in reports, were initially charged as juveniles and in June 2022 a court approved trying them as adults. The three face multiple charges including conspiracy to commit murder, two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault, theft by receiving stolen property and firearms offenses.

Are there readers who knew Shemiah or who have information about that night on Bellevue Avenue?