Jaya Beemon

Jaya Beemon, an 18-year-old African American nursing student at Malcolm X College, tragically lost her life on February 25, 2020, in a shooting incident at a food mart in the Avalon Park neighborhood of Chicago, IL. On that fateful day, Jaya was inside the store located in the 7900-block of South Avalon Avenue when three individuals opened fire into the establishment. The assailants, who were targeting an unarmed man inside the store, missed their intended target and instead struck five innocent ...

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