On a summer afternoon in New Haven, Connecticut, a 22-year-old Black / African American woman named Ciera "Cece" Jones Whitfield was standing outside her home in the Hill neighborhood. It was July 5, 2021, and in a sudden burst of violence, she was shot in the head in broad daylight at the corner of Truman Street and Clover Place. Her birth mother, who was nearby, heard what she thought were fireworks, only to discover her daughter lying on the porch. Whitfield was rushed to the hospital in crit
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