Tashika Sims, a 26-year-old Black woman from Fairburn, Georgia, was killed on February 2, 2020, after what should have been an ordinary Super Bowl gathering turned deadly in southwest Atlanta. According to contemporary local reporting, she was at a party at an apartment complex on Fairburn Road when an argument broke out and the tension escalated into gunfire. Police said Sims was shot in the chest during the confrontation and was rushed to the hospital, but she did not survive.
Later reporting in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s homicide database identified her by name and placed her death within the city’s 2020 homicide toll, turning a chaotic moment at a crowded party into a permanent loss for her family and community.
Investigators said the violence centered on a dispute between two women at the party. The woman police identified as the suspect was Rochel Facey, who was taken into custody after authorities said they developed probable cause and obtained a warrant. News reports published immediately after the shooting said Facey was booked into the Fulton County Jail, and the charges publicly tied to the case were murder, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery. In the early coverage, the scene was described as one in which a single argument suddenly tipped into irreversible violence, leaving Sims mortally wounded while partygoers and first responders were left in the aftermath of the shooting.
As for what happened after the arrest, the most consistently available public online sources identify Facey as the named suspect and describe the charges, but widely accessible reporting located here does not clearly document a later trial, conviction, or final court resolution in the case. What is publicly preserved most clearly is the stark outline of the night itself: a Super Bowl party, an argument, a gunshot, a young woman taken to the hospital, and a homicide case that moved quickly to an arrest. Sims’s death was reported as gun violence in Atlanta, and the brief obituary notices that followed underscored how quickly her life was reduced in public record to a date, a funeral, and a few lines of grief after the violence of that February night.
