Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the death of six-year-old Aniya Allen, whose case remains unsolved.
Aniya was a passenger inside her mother’s vehicle on May 17, 2021. They had just stopped at McDonald’s and were on their way home, Aniya in the backseat, eating a Happy Meal.
As the car neared the intersection of 36th and Penn Avenue in Minneapolis, shots rang out as two groups of people began firing at one another. Bullets struck the vehicle multiple times as they were caught in the crossfire, and Aniya was fatally wounded…