Alexis Ebony Allen, a 21-year-old Black woman, came to Norfolk carrying the kind of hope that looks ordinary until it’s tested: a fresh start, two small children depending on her, and plans that were finally beginning to feel solid. People close to her said she’d relocated from New Jersey and had been staying with a local resident after leaving a harmful situation behind, trying to build something safer and steadier. She had just lined up work caring for seniors and was supposed to start tha
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