Nyiah Courtney

Death by Force

On a warm summer evening in Washington, D.C., six-year-old Nyiah Courtney was walking home with her family in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Southeast D.C. on July 16, 2021. The night was shattered by a barrage of bullets from a passing vehicle at the intersection of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenues. In the chaos that ensued, Nyiah was fatally wounded, becoming the youngest victim of a fatal shooting in the city that year. Her mother and father were also wounded in the attack, ...Read More

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