TAMPA, Fla. - Five men charged in the 2021 shooting death of 4-year-old Suni Bell are standing trial in a Tampa courtroom.

The backstory:

Prosecutors say the child was riding in the backseat of a car driving down Hillsborough Ave. on Aug. 22, 2021, when three cars pulled up and fired about 40 shots into the vehicle.

Suni's mother and uncle survived, but the child later died at the hospital.

Andrew Thompson, James Denson, Jaylen Bedward, Quadarious Hammond, and Zvante Sampson are charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.

Dig deeper:

Prosecutors say the shooting was "clearly a coordinated attack," with surveillance video showing the moments leading to the shooting – which the state plans to show to the jury.

In the years since the shooting, the Tampa P

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