A day of fam­i­ly fun end­ed in tragedy when four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a nine-year-old girl, were am­bushed and killed while on their way home on Sun­day night.

Po­lice said 26-year-old Asim Arm­strong was dri­ving a red Mit­subishi Lancer, with his nine-year-old niece J’Lay­na Arm­strong and friends Obataiye Lat­iff, 23 and Chel­sa Ed­wards, 20, at around 7.55 pm when they were shot at by men in an­oth­er car along the La­dy Young Road, Mor­vant, near the Shiloh Sev­enth Day Ad­ven­tist Church.

Arm­strong re­port­ed­ly lost con­trol of the ve­hi­cle and crashed in­to a parked car near­by, as the gun­men es­caped. They were among sev­en peo­ple who died over a three-day pe­ri­od, from Fri­day to Sun­day, at the hands of the crim­i­nal el­e­ment.