In the late summer of 2025, a life was tragically cut short in Columbia, South Carolina, leaving a family in mourning and a community seeking answers. Zakiyah Ali, a 30-year-old Hispanic/Latina woman and a mother to two young children, found her life irrevocably altered on the evening of Sunday, September 14th. An argument at the InTown Suites on Two Notch Road escalated to a moment of irreversible violence. It was there that Ali sustained a gunshot wound to her upper body, a critical injury tha
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