Almost two years after her father was shot and killed while driving along a road in Birmingham, Alabama, with two of his young children, his now-4-year-old daughter died from injuries she got in an accident that happened because of the shooting.
Madison Grace Davis, who was four years old, died in June, her family said last week on a GoFundMe.
On the fundraising page, her cousin Tiffany Davis wrote that Madison had “suffered from a traumatic brain injury” in the crash.
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Davis wrote, “Even though she was very strong and fought bravely, she has now left us, and our hearts are broken.”
Just before 6 p.m., Madison’s dad, Demarkus Etwan Moss, Sr., was going along Arkadelphia Road with his kids. Birmingham police said in a press statement at the time that someone in a nearby car “began firing shots into his vehicle” on Friday, September 2, 2022.
After being hit by gunshots, Moss kept driving for about a half mile before he crashed into another car.
When police arrived, they saw Moss slouched over the wheel and “suffering from an apparent gunshot wound,” the release says.
Moss was the person who was shot, and cops said he was dead at the scene.
Police say first rescuers found his daughter Madison, who was two years old at the time, “unresponsive.”
In an email to PEOPLE, Officer Truman Fitzgerald says that Madison was not shot and that “the accident killed her.”
The crash did not hurt her baby brother very badly.
Madison and the hurt people in the other car were taken to different hospitals.
AL.com claimed that Madison was later released from the hospital but had to go back because of complications.
The news source says the girl never talked or walked again after the accident.
Some people who wrote about Moss online said that he had four kids and was known as “Bobo.”
Someone wrote on the page, “I pray the kids are okay after all this.”
People have been told that Madison died at Children’s Hospital of Alabama on Tuesday, June 25. Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates of the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office confirmed this. It has not yet been proven what killed her or how she died.
According to AL.com, after the killing, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin took to social media to ask for help solving the case.
“I’m sick of this scum hurting our kids,” the mayor wrote. “Enough.”
Police tell PEOPLE that almost two years later, they still don’t have any suspects in the shooting death. The case is still being looked into.