Tyisha Wilbourn

On the evening of February 1, 2019, the life of 20-year-old Tyisha Shaunta Wilbourn, a Black female from Coldwater, Mississippi, was tragically cut short. A recent graduate of Independence High School, Tyisha was a new mother to a one-month-old daughter, Onesti' C. Wright, and was attending Itawamba Community College with aspirations for the future. That fateful evening, an argument broke out at a gas station on Highway 51 in Como, Mississippi, which would irrevocably alter the course of many li ...

Tyisha Wilbourn, age 20 - National Gun Violence Memorial