Twelve-year-old Genesis Rincon was struck by a stray bullet on the evening of July 5, 2014, in Paterson, New Jersey. She and two friends had been riding a scooter after a family gathering when shots were fired along Rosa Parks Boulevard. Genesis was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center and declared brain-dead; her family donated her organs, which saved five children.

Investigators concluded the shooting was a gang-related exchange and that the shots came from a white van; Genesis was not the intended target. Public outrage and protests followed her death and were cited as factors that contributed to arrests and prosecutions.

Three people were charged in connection with the shooting. Jhymiere Moore was identified as the gunman; he turned himself in. Jeffery Ellerbee and Marshae Anthony were also arrested. Prosecutors later secured guilty pleas: Moore to aggravated manslaughter in Genesis’s death, Ellerbee to related charges, and Anthony for supplying the weapon. Moore received a 20-year sentence; Ellerbee was given five years and Anthony was sentenced to time served. Genesis’s father addressed Moore at sentencing and said he forgave him, blaming street violence for his daughter’s death.