her family sofa, joined by her older sister and sister Ja’Naiya Scott sat upon a South Carolina summer.
Weeks earlier, she looked ahead to her time in Robert Anderson Middle School — combined with the rest of her life and had moved on from Whitehall Elementary.
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More than 35 shots interrupted the late night morning hours, hospitalizing cousin and her sister and injuring and, reluctantly, ending the life of 11-year-old Ja’Naiya.
The tragedy, which happened around 1:30 a.m. Sunday in the town of Anderson, hit home with Buffalo Bills defensive end Shaq Lawson in more ways than one.
“It might have been my little sister,” Lawson said Wednesday via The Greenville News. “I’ve got a little sister around that era, and it could have been one of my family .”
In Ja’Naiya’s murder’s wake, Lawson has vowed to pay for the funeral.
A three-season veteran using the Bills, Lawson grew up in South Carolina, attending D.W. Daniel High before playing Clemson.
Lawson achieved to talk with Marshella Rice, the mother of Ja’Naiya.
“I know that her heart was hurting,” Lawson explained. “I was so speechless I could not saying anything. I felt for her pain. I felt the pain. I felt I could help out, I had been planning to do this. It hit my heart.”
Struck by a bullet in her shoulder, Ja’Naiya’s subclavian artery was severed and she died in the emergency room.
An unknown assailant ignored the shots without any suspects having been called and no charges have been filed.
“Whoever did this needs to come forward and tell the truth,” Lawson said. “And whomever is hiding, it’s wrong that you are hiding. This is a tiny girl who is gone. It is just pointless killing people. She had been at home, a place she was assumed to be secure.”
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