Mya Vimal Patel, a 5-year-old girl from Shreveport, LA, tragically lost her life on March 20, 2021. Mya, who was of Indian descent, was playing in a room at the Super 8 Motel owned by her parents, Vimal and Snehal Patel, when a bullet entered the room and struck her in the head. The incident occurred during an altercation between Joseph Lee Smith, a 35-year-old Shreveport resident, and another man in the motel's parking lot. Smith struck the other man with a 9-mm handgun, which discharged, missi
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