The years Sequoya Carpenter had with her mother were too few far too few.
But at 19 years old, Sequoya has built enough memories of her mother, Latoya Renee Carpenter, to last a life time.
The mother who would often go outside to play hop scotch with her three daughters.
The mother who would buy a 1,000-piece puzzle and solve it in the course of a night.
The mother who always wanted to be included in the boy talk.
“My mom was a happy, spirited person,” Sequoya said. “She was a mother, but she was more of a best friend she was both.”
country
Americans awoke Friday to news of yet another mass shooting, this time at a
FedEx facility in Indianapolis, where eight people were killed late Thursday.
By the end of the weekend, at least nine more people had died from gun
violence in back-to-back shootings across the country in Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska and Louisiana. At least 10 more were wounded.
Since March 16, when eight people were killed and one wounded in shootings
at three Atlanta-area spas, at least 50 mass shootings have been reported in the United States. CNN defines a mass shooting as a shooting with four or
Associated Press
REYNOLDSBURG A drive-by shooting at memorial vigil for an earlier homicide victim killed a passing motorist and wounded five people in the crowd, including a 12-year-old child, police said.
Columbus detectives said a small group had gathered at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Truro Township lot southeast of the city to mark one year since another person was killed at the same location. At about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, police said, a dark-colored sport utility vehicle drove past and someone opened fire, hitting five people.
In addition, Latoya Carpenter, 39, who was driving past the location was struck in the head by gunfire and crashed into a parked car in an apartment building parking lot next door, police said. Carpenter was pronounced dead at the scene, they said.