Erica Taylor, with four of the seven grandchildren she has been taking care of since her daughter was shot by her ex-partner in 2017, paralyzing her. All of the children witnessed the shooting. Photo: John Gray, Verite News
By Michele Cohen Marill, MindSiteNews, December 23, 2024
This is the first part of Forgotten Children, a series on the tragic and underreported problem of childhood grief – and efforts to address it. Parental death has been rising in the U.S. due to COVID-19, the overdose epidemic and gun violence. MindSite News reported the story in collaboration with Verite News of New Orleans, which contributed photography and video, and is co-publishing.
It only takes one bullet to shatter the lives of eight children.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, Sept. 1, a fight spilled out of the Shamrock bar in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans. Raven Francis, her sisters, and a friend had gone to the bar for a girls’ night out, and about a half-hour after the melee they piled into their car to leave. But danger followed them.
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