Six men go on trial starting Thursday for the 2018 killing of Makiyah Wilson, a 10-year-old girl caught in the crossfire of a gang feud that came to a head in the courtyard of a residential building in Northeast D.C.

Quentin Michael, 25; Qujuan Thomas, 24; Isaiah Murchison, 23; Darrise Jeffers, 23; and Gregory Taylor, 27, all of Southeast, and Marquell Cobbs, 21, of Clinton, Maryland face charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and other counts in Wilson’s death. They were among 11 people arrested in the wake of the high-profile slaying, which D.C. police say stemmed from a beef between two street gangs.

“The people that did this, they did this indiscriminately. They came out in this community without regard to human life and opened fire,” said then-Assistant D.C. Police Chief Chanel Dickerson at the time.

That year was particularly deadly for children in D.C.; 13 were killed in violent crimes across the city. In 2019, the tally went up to 14, including 11-year-old Karon Brown. The next year, deadly violence claimed Davon McNeal, also 11.

Last year, 18 kids died by homicide in D.C. City officials have said they are concerned with the rise in violence amongst youth, and recently said at a public meeting that they’re seeing more children jump straight into crimes that involve guns. In January, 13-year-old Karon Blake, who was unarmed, was shot and killed by a resident who said he was breaking into cars in Brookland. Jason Lewis, a longtime D.C. government employee, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder for Blake’s killing.

Earlier this year, a resolution was introduced in the D.C. Council to symbolically rename the street where Wilson was killed as “Makiyah Wilson Way.”