On a fall evening in 2020, a trip to Brooklyn for a celebration turned into a tragedy for a young woman from Virginia. Daijyonna Akira Renee Long, a 20-year-old Black female, traveled from her home in Stafford to attend a Sweet 16 afterparty in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. In the early hours of November 22, the gathering at an apartment on Albany Avenue was shattered by gunfire, claiming Daijyonna's life.
The event was intended to be a joyous occasion, but it became the scene of a
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