With help of friends and family, Nikki White put finishing touches on parade float to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Daughter, Nikkitia Bryant, was killed year ago during MLK event in Fort Pierce.
The Martin Luther King Day event was supposed to have private security according to county permits, but organizers canceled without warning the deputies, the St Lucie County Sheriff's Office.
People in Fort Pierce are pushing to heal from the Martin Luther King Jr. Day tragedy that left one woman dead. That includes a vigil service at Ilous Ellis Park, the site of the shooting Monday.
One of the organizers of Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Fort Pierce told WPTV that it was hijacked by those responsible for pulling the trigger.
City commissioners spent the first part of their meeting discussing the tragic event one day earlier during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in which one woman died and seven others were shot.