Melissa Ursula Fernandes

Death by Force

On a Wednesday afternoon, March 23, 1994, the life of 16-year-old Melissa Ursula Fernandes was tragically cut short. She was standing with classmates outside Ballard High School in Seattle, Washington, waiting for her mother to pick her up. Uninvolved in the escalating tensions between local youth gangs, she became an innocent victim caught in the crossfire of a violent feud. That day, a car carrying members of the '23rd Street Diablos' gang drove by the school with the intent of retaliating aga ...Read More

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