On what should have been a joyous celebration of her 19th birthday, Jayla Brown, a young Black woman from Pittsburgh, was tragically killed in a hail of gunfire in the early morning hours of August 9, 2007. She was the innocent victim of a targeted shooting in the Lawrenceville neighborhood, a devastating end to what had been a celebratory first date.
That evening, Jayla and her date, 22-year-old James Johnson, had enjoyed a movie and dinner to mark her birthday. Afterwards, they drove to
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