In 2020, Natalie Wallace was playing on a sidewalk when police said three armed men got out of a white car and fired more than 20 times in the direction of the people holding a party in the 100-block of North Latrobe Avenue.
She was shot by a stray bullet in the forehead, in front of her siblings and other relatives, and died at the hospital.
Terell Boyd was one of the four people accused of being responsible for the deadly shooting.
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Nearly five years after the murder, a judge found Boyd not guilty on all counts, including murder and aggravated battery.
Boyd's brothers, Davion Mitchel and Kevin Boyd, were among the others charged for her death.
Davion Mitchel was found not guilty on all counts.
Kevin Boyd was previously found guilty of murder and aggravated battery and aggravated discharge of a firearm. He is due in court on Thursday.
Reginald Merrill was accused of driving the brothers for the shooting. Merrill was found not guilty of murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm.
Mitchel was found not guilty in April.
"Y'all lives go back to normal. And for me, me and mines, we still picking up the pieces," father Nathan Wallace said.
For more than five years, Wallace said he's had to walk into the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, hoping for justice in his daughter's murder, only to watch as a third man was acquitted of all charges. That hope for justice, he says, is now slowly dimming.
"I'm just torn and still trying to figure out how to go day-by-day living with something like that," Wallace said.
It's been a long five years of clenching on to fading memories, while fighting for closure in his daughter's murder case
"It's been torment," Wallace said. "She was really loving. She loved the crap out of 'Frozen.'"
Justice for Wallace, he says, is no longer worth the fight.
"Actually going to court and hearing the things that were done. Hearing it over and over, and to actually know three defendants had got off, I mean, I have no justice," Wallace said. "It was an ATF agent that said that she recognized him through video. The judge saying, 'I guess, it wasn't enough.'"
Wallace said he feels like he isn't doing enough.
"You know, fathers are supposed to be there to protect their child. And that day I feel like I failed, and every day I'm sitting there trying to make it up with the other kids," he said. "Everybody gets to go back to their regular lives, and I'm still picking up the pieces."