Nia Simone Ratcliff Died In deadly Christmas Day shooting downtown

A teen girl has died after a shooting took place on Christmas Day in Downtown Memphis.

The victim has been identified by family as 16-year-old Nia Simone.

Simone’s mother, Robyn Ratcliff, said her daughter was inside Club Level III on Adams Avenue when she was struck by a bullet. She was taken to the hospital where she died two days later.

“She was a good friend. She was a good daughter. She was my only child. She was just exceptional,” Ratcliff said.

Simone was a junior at Overton High School where she ran track, played soccer, was a basketball manager, and worked at a neighborhood Walmart. Her mother says she was supposed to be at a sleepover that night but left with friends to go to a party.

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