A year later, as the covid-19 pandemic ravaged New Orleans, Brown graduated in a drive-through ceremony held at a local park. He turned down offers at engineering programs across the country to instead begin his undergraduate education at a local community college. Brown hoped to someday transfer to one of his dream schools, like Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Georgia Tech, with the ultimate goal of becoming an aerospace engineer.
“I just want to feel her presence,” said Ladia Yates, 32, owner of the Memphis dance studio where Washington worked as an administrator. “I don’t want anyone to forget her.” Washington was considered family by many employees of the studio where she worked for years before she was shot and killed. Earlier that day in a Facebook post, Yates had written: “These folks don’t understand the beast that’s about to come out of me on this dance floor.”Kim Woody-Walker, the mother of Jaylon Palmore, stands next to the overgrown garden she and her son kept together. Since Jaylon was killed by a stray bullet on March 5, Woody-Walker has not been able to bring herself to clear and replant the garden.
After all, they watched the way he set his mind to something and followed through, like when his grades began to slip and they told him he’d lose the PlayStation if he did not shape up. The report cards that followed made his parents proud.Jaylon’s stepdad liked to rib him about all the time he spent in his room, controller in hand, headset on: “Don’t you have a girl you can speak to?” Walker would ask, joking with the son he had helped raise for a decade.
Jaylon parents stand in the room in which they plan to celebrate Jaylon’s life. “It’s not a memorial,” said his mother Woody-Walker. “It’s the Jaylon Party Room.”Woody-Walker holds a painting of her son. The painting was an anonymous gift from someone at Jaylon’s school.Jaylon parents stand in the room in which they plan to celebrate Jaylon’s life. “It’s not a memorial,” said his mother Woody-Walker. “It’s the Jaylon Party Room.
On May 27, Woody-Walker visited her son’s grave with a big Happy Birthday sign. She cleaned up around the site, sat down and talked to him. She told him she loved him, she’d never forget him and that she would see him again one day.He said he would die under the tree he loved. He was killed there. No one ever imagined that would be true. But on July 24, just after 3 p.m., a crackle of gunfire interrupted a sunny Sunday afternoon. Someone in a passing car had opened fire, spraying a volley of bullets toward the trees. Riley, who is not believed to have been the target, died at the scene. A second man, 20, was also shot but survived.
Uh oh - better build even more prisons and involuntarily hospitalize people.
Thanks elonmusk
Gotta be Elon’s fault.
broken culture and religion are the causes
Why do you keep switching “gun violence” with “violence” It’s sneaky and scapegoats the overall crime problem
Isn’t any significant homicide a “crisis?” Don’t you nimrods understand by constantly abusing words like crisis and epidemic everyone stops listening?
Of course the toxic urban gang culture that underlies the vast majority of the violence won’t be blamed.
Is that a white girl with culturally appropriated hair?
In a materialistic society, life is the cheapest commodity.
Love how you wait until after the midterms to post this..
America has a gun problem
Defund the police, cashless bail, Soros backed DA's, basically everything democrats cried about and now the results.
Killers should visit russia. They probably will like it.
I was told this was a “Fictional Narrative” created by Fox News.
OH ….couldn’t have been all of your woke district attorneys, could it …..Oh well, we’re not supposed to talk about that ….are we?
In a Godless nation where a majority have no morals nor meaning in their lives, what would you expect?
“Victim data collected from each city profiled here show Black people made up more than 80 percent of the total homicide victims in 2020 and 2021.” The left did that with “justice reform.” So much for black lives mattering.
why is this the case? Every place w/shitty COPs DNC run Every place w/awful schools DNC run Every place w/out opportunity DNC run Every place underserved DNC run Every place w/endless crime DNC run Every place in debt & ruin DNC run Every one of them
Thanks progressive crime legislation
Democrat controlled
I wonder why?
Bet you these were not high Caucasian areas
It’s all Donald’s fault
Thanks to media and TheDemocrats defund the police campaign
Black lives only matter if its officers involved.
Blue Cities Policies invite this peril repeatedly; and many Voters echo these policy failures, falsely (as successes).
So...defund the police? 🤔
…and which party has been in power for decades in all of these cities?
Joe Biden's America
Way to go Democrats!!
Democrat leadership is an amazing thing to witness.
Gotta be looking hawt for the mass shooting vigil.
Now tell us who's doing the murdering.
Would gave been nice if you had printed that story before the election.
Sad to target each other instead whos doing it to All.
.........just STOP making these weapons in the first place.....
Lori Lightfoot would disagree and redirect how she supports diversity
2 years, since democrats defunded police and Biden and democrats fired tons of police officers
Let me guess...homicides are also racist?
Most of the homicides are happening in Democrat run cities and Black people are committing a disproportionate number of them. Those are just the facts people.
VenturaReport weren't the dems pushing for defunding the police?
Curious how the homicide rates are over past few years if you drop mass shootings from the equation.
Media/Academia/Hollywood romanticize crime sprees, absolve citizenry of prosecutable crimes. Now 'crime' is what you say on Twitter/social Media. In California, you can walk out looting under $600 wasn't it? I just feel sorry any minorities still believe this is 'progressive'.
Most are with a firearm. Yet people go My RiGhTs over literally human life. Ugh.
Liberal utopia Trump sucks so do Democrats
Activist District Attorneys don't prosecute criminals. Prisoners are released too early. Police only enforce low-level offenses against honest citizens. It's all a real mystery.
Why do Democrat controlled cities have the worst crime statistics I wonder?
And I’m sure all the fear-mongering, race baiting, political division and misleading headlines coming from mainstream media like have nothing to do with it…right?
So maybe it wasn’t the lead?
Mysterious