Bles’syn Lightner

Death by Force

Bles'syn Lightner, 2, a Black female, had just celebrated her birthday four days earlier when the quiet of a late-summer Friday in Melbourne, Florida, shattered. Close to 10:51 p.m. on August 29, 2025, shots tore through a home on Poplar Lane, where the toddler was staying with family. Responding officers found three people wounded inside: two adults in critical condition and the child, Bles'syn Lightner, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The adults—identified by police as a 54-year-old ma ...Read More

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