ATLANTA — Activists with Black Lives Matter had a vision for what the scorched remains of a Wendy’s restaurant could become: the Rayshard Brooks Peace Center, a gathering place in Atlanta with job training, counseling and youth programs that would be a living memorial named for the man whose fatal encounter with the police transformed the fast-food eatery into the heart of the city’s turmoil.
But the lofty aspirations have been clouded by continuing violence. On Saturday, an 8-year-old girl, Secoriea Turner, was gunned down, the authorities said, after an armed group stopped her family’s car nearby.
“You killed your own — you killed your own this time,” her father, Secoriya Williamson, said at a news conference on Sunday night. “You killed a child. She didn’t do nothing to nobody.”
The killing unsettled a city already beleaguered and on edge. Atlanta has been rocked by weeks of turbulence, with Mr. Brooks’s death on June 12 sparking unrest in the streets, and some in the Police Department staging their own protests after two officers were charged in connection with his death.