Nadria Wright would have been 20 on Tuesday.
The Columbia College student s life ended on Sept. 13, 2019, when she was a passenger in a car, killed by a gunshot intended for the driver. She was the seventh person killed by gun violence in Columbia in 2019.
She was 18 and a freshman nursing student at Columbia College.
She had been a member of the Blue Thunder Track Club and played saxophone in the Battle High School band. She traveled to China to study at Shanghai University with Columbia Public Schools and the Confucius Institute.
Now, a group of organizations has formed to launch the Nadria Leeann Wright Memorial Nursing Scholarship.