On a summer night in Middle River, Maryland, the life of 13-year-old Ayeonna Watkins was tragically cut short. It was the evening of July 31, 2017, and Ayeonna, a Black female, was with a group of friends behind a 7-Eleven on Peterson Road. Shortly before midnight, an individual emerged from a nearby alley and opened fire on the group. The sudden eruption of gunfire, which some neighbors initially mistook for fireworks, struck Ayeonna multiple times in her upper and lower body. She was pronounce
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