Jayla Blackshear

Death by Force

A fourteen-year-old Black female, Jayla Blackshear, breathed her last on April 15, 2022, in her East Anchorage home, alongside her thirty-five-year-old mother, Raechyl Blackshear, a nurse. That afternoon, Anchorage police responded to a welfare check and discovered both victims inside the residence. The initial grim finding soon revealed they had each sustained fatal shotgun wounds, a discovery that jolted the community and marked the scene as a double homicide. The teenager's age, gender, and e ...Read More

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