Tamika Washington, 23, was a woman from Fairfield, Alabama whose life ended in gunfire on June 20, 2015, outside the place she called home in the Demetrius Newton public-housing community. Reports described her as being on the front porch when she was shot, in a neighborhood that—by daylight—was simply where families lived, children played, and neighbors watched each other’s doors.
As word spread through Fairfield, the killing began to feel connected to the fear that had already se
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