Thirteen-year-old Lucia Whalen Bremer was shot and killed on the afternoon of March 26, 2021, while walking with a friend in suburban Richmond, Virginia. An eighth-grade honors student at Quioccasin Middle School, Lucia played soccer for her school and the Richmond Strikers travel team and helped with her family’s Liberty Tree Farm. She was shot multiple times in a garage after a masked man in a hooded sweatshirt followed the girls; her friend escaped and ran for help, hearing gunshots. Lucia was taken to a nearby hospital but died of her wounds.

Police launched a manhunt and a 14-year-old boy was arrested the next day; because of his age his name was not initially released. Investigators reported a social media comment two weeks earlier in which the suspect wrote about a school shooting, and prosecutors said he had gone to the area intending a violent act. Authorities stated there was no indication the suspect knew either girl. If anyone knew Lucia, her friend that day, or has information about the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.