Genevieve Marie Philip

On a summer evening in Boston, tragedy befell Genevieve Marie Philip, a 22-year-old Black / African American woman, whose life was abruptly cut short on August 12, 2012. She was in a parked car on Harlem Street in the Dorchester neighborhood with three friends when they were ambushed in a hail of gunfire. The violent attack resulted in the deaths of Genevieve and two of her friends, Sharrice Perkins and Kristen Lartey, both also 22. A fourth woman in the vehicle was wounded but survived the horr ...

Genevieve Marie Philip, age 22 - National Gun Violence Memorial