In the winter of 2008, the life of 12-year-old Jolesa M. Barber was tragically cut short in a hail of gunfire on the North Side of Pittsburgh. On the evening of January 28th, Jolesa was at her sister's home on Brightridge Street in the Perry South neighborhood when the house was targeted in a violent attack. Assailants fired more than 40 rounds from an assault rifle and a pistol into the residence, striking and killing the young girl. Her mother, Kimberly Wade, was also wounded in the leg during
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