Body-camera footage shared by Myrah Zeigler’s mother shows the 19-year-old Fort Pierce woman asking Fort Lauderdale police officers for help retrieving her friends’ keys and asking to be walked to a nearby park. An officer appears to agree to accompany the group. Minutes later, as Zeigler and a friend walked toward the park, two gunshots can be heard on the recording.
Zeigler was killed on May 19, 2025, following a disturbance at a home in Fort Lauderdale, according to WPBF. The footage, which Zeigler’s mother, Alacia Ford-Barron, recently shared with the station, shows Zeigler telling officers someone had taken her friends’ keys and asking for help getting them back. It also shows an officer appearing to agree to walk the group to the park.
What the video does not make clear, per the same account, is why officers did not actually follow Zeigler and her friend as they set out. Ford-Barron says officers did not accompany her daughter to the park, and she has said their presence might have deterred the shooter. The footage captures the two gunshots as the pair walked away.
Police Say Disturbance Turned Physical Before the Shooting
Police said Zeigler was found lying in the roadway with a gunshot wound and was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where she later died. Investigators said a disturbance involving a group of adults escalated into a physical altercation before a man pulled out a handgun and shot Zeigler, the station's report notes.
A month after the shooting, no arrests had been made, according to a Local 10 report published on June 17, 2025, which described the family demanding answers and justice. That gap stretched on for weeks before investigators made any public move in the case.
Arrest Came Nearly Two Months Later
In July 2025, Fort Lauderdale police announced the arrest of Larry Lamar Smith in connection with Zeigler’s death. He was charged with second-degree murder with a firearm, per the same account from WPBF. TCPalm reported that Smith was detained during a traffic stop on July 6 and arrested on an active warrant tied to the case.
Ford-Barron has said she questioned how the responding officers handled the situation after reviewing the body-camera footage. She says she plans to continue fighting for answers, adding that doing so is what her daughter would have wanted.
