She wonders for how long he’ll remember his mother.
The girl has dealt with depression, but Anderson worries even more about the boy. The kids’ father is in prison, she said, and the children now live apart. Brown’s death splintered the family, said her grandmother, Barbara Anderson. The other one, Melissa Brown, 31, left behind a 3-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl. In Baltimore, Jackie was the first of two mothers gunned down that week. Sometimes, she hugs his urn or gently places drawings and My Little Pony toys on top of it. His sister, Bailey, now 7, still cries about her dad’s death, still asks why anyone would hurt him. In Philadelphia, after Brent Swearingen was killed, his 14-year-old son, Nasir, grew so afraid of being shot himself that he stopped riding the bus or shopping at the corner store, said his aunt, Tajia Swearingen. “You know your mother just got killed?” his cousin said.īrent Swearingen with his children, Bailey and Nasir, shortly before he was killed in Philadelphia in February 2020. So, when Kavon noticed an Instagram post about another shooting at Douglass, he didn’t think much of it. His son and namesake, Kavon Jr., felt angry at first, but in time, as he watched his family mourn friends and neighbors being killed, his fury gave way to a lingering numbness. It left his preschool daughter sad and confused, but certain that her dad, the man who bought her a bag of chips whenever she wanted one, had gone to heaven.
Their dad, Kavon Washington Sr., had been shot on the side of the road while walking to work in early August 2017. If the trends identified in those communities remained consistent across the country, it would mean that the parents of more than 15,000 children in America were gunned down that year - or, on average, at least 41 every day.Īnd that doesn’t include the thousands of parents - the precise number is impossible to track - who shot themselves.īy that unseasonably mild afternoon in Baltimore, Kaleigh and her older brother, 11-year-old Kavon, already knew what it felt like to be robbed of a parent. Click here to learn more about the reporting of the data. This data was compiled from Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Mo., Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, St. “One mother wrote that her child purchased 158 yogurt parfaits from McDonald’s using Grubhub or Uber Eats.”Īnd while that’s pretty darn funny, Loos’s video takes the cake.Īs one person wrote, “CONGRATULATIONS! You Win.Note: In a limited number of cases, the markers represent the date of the shooting rather than the date the victim died. People are sharing their own horror stories,” she said. “The comments are the best part of the entire thing. Since posting about the incident on TikTok, Loos has racked up more than 1,000 comments. I honestly didn’t ask more more questions because I don’t want to know.” “My friend said she heard me scream and saw my face. “Luckily, I don’t have a huge following on Instagram so not a lot of people saw me,” Loos said. Emery was playing with filters and when she lost them, she came into the bathroom looking for her mom to get them back.
With the help of her pal, Loos was able to piece together what happened. She quickly ended the show and messaged a girlfriend who had been watching. “I was mortified and completely panicked,” Loos said. That’s when a horrified Loos saw that she was live streaming.
“I thought an ad had popped up and she couldn’t get it off the screen, so I grabbed the phone to see what was going on,” Loos said. Loos, who is 38 weeks pregnant with her third child, barely had time to shampoo her hair before Emery wandered in asking for help. “So I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I need to take advantage of this. “I was sitting there with her and she was just so quiet and content,” Loos recalled.
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