In the early morning hours of August 26, 2023, the life of 19-year-old Khia Shields was tragically cut short in her mother's Wrens, Georgia, home. A Black female and a sophomore at Georgia Southern University, she was asleep on the living room sofa when a bullet pierced through the wall and struck her in the chest. The sudden violence shattered the quiet of the night and the lives of her family.
Awakened by the gunshot, Khia stumbled into her mother's bedroom, her hands outstretched as sh
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