Mourners Pay Final Respects To Secoriea Turner

A man carries flowers Tuesday into a viewing for 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, who was fatally shot in Atlanta on July 4th near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed the previous month.

John Bazemore / Associated Press

Mourners paid their final respects Tuesday to an 8-year-old Atlanta girl slain near the site of an earlier police killing.

Adults and children at the public viewing filed past the body of Secoriea Turner, who wore a gold-colored dress, a gold tiara and black sneakers. A private funeral is planned for Wednesday.

Secoriea was fatally shot on the Fourth of July while riding in an SUV with her mother and another adult. The shooting happened near the Wendy’s restaurant where Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was killed by a white police officer on June 12.