Carla Nichols

In the quiet, typically safe neighborhood near 60th and Roosevelt in Milwaukee, the night of October 2, 2014, was shattered by an act of violence that claimed the life of 50-year-old Carla Nichols, a Black/African American female. Just before midnight, Carla had gone outside to move her car from the street to a parking slab in the alley of the residence where she was staying with friends. It was a routine act that tragically placed her in the path of an unknown assailant.

As she made her ...