David Jones

David Jones was a 4-year-old Black boy who died on October 14, 1994, in Richmond, Virginia, in a burst of gunfire that turned an ordinary morning in Gilpin Court into a scene of sudden, irreversible loss. Inside the apartment on St. James Street, the day began with familiar faces and casual talk, but tension simmered beneath it: Tamika Jones, fourteen and heavily pregnant, was tied by circumstance and emotion to Christopher “Pops” Goins, and when an ultrasound photo of her unborn baby was ...

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David H. Jones, age 4 - National Gun Violence Memorial