Kyra Young

Death by Force

Kyra Young, a 17-year-old African-American female from Chicago, was spending the early evening of June 7, 2017, with friends when her life was cut short by gunfire on the city's South Side. She was known to those close to her by the nickname “Keira Murdaa,” a name that shows up in memorial listings after her death, and she made her home in the Bronzeville neighborhood, one of the historic heartlands of Black Chicago on the South Side. Friends and relatives who later wrote about her online de ...Read More

Kyra Young, age 17 - National Gun Violence Memorial

Woman killed, man wounded in South Shore shooting

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