The mother of a 14-year-old woman fatally shot and burned in an alleged on-line dispute has issued a heartbreaking plea — begging individuals to submit images of her baby since “she by no means would let me take any of her.”
“Please anybody with images of my Danika… submit them right here,” Ashley Troy of Florida wrote on Fb on Friday — three days after her daughter’s physique was present in Tempo close to the southern coast of the state’s panhandle.
“She by no means would let me take any of her as a teen,” the stricken mother defined.
A flood of household and mates swiftly responded, posting scores of snaps and movies, together with one displaying Danika decked out in a pink tutu and sporting a party hat as a little bit woman whereas holding a small pink guitar and singing right into a toy microphone at what seems to be a park.
A lot of the footage are posted with out captions — indicating none have been wanted amid the extraordinary sorrow.
Additionally on the mother’s web page is a photograph she posted herself in September 2023 and which is now her Fb cowl picture.
It exhibits Danika and her little sister standing towards a wall mural — every of them completely aligned with their very own pair of rainbow-colored angel wings.
Authorities stated Danika was lured right into a wooded space and shot to demise Dec. 2 by baby-faced suspects Kimahri Blevins, 14, and Gabriel Williams, 16.
Cops stated the three youngsters have been faculty “acquaintances” and had a falling out over Thanksgiving break, with boys allegedly incensed about Ashley blocking Blevins on social media and calling Williams “nugatory” and a “gang-banger.”
She had been lacking since Nov. 30 and was reported as a runaway the following day, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson instructed reporters at a press convention.
The suspects, who’ve each been charged in her homicide, are accused of heartlessly setting her stays on hearth after killing her.
Johnson stated Williams had stolen his mom’s handgun for the assault.
Danika’s mother had posted images of her daughter’s sky-blue and white Air Jordan sneakers in addition to black puffer jacket when she went lacking, desperately in search of data on her whereabouts.
Then within the later submit asking for images of her now-dead daughter, she wrote her plea beneath a somber picture of an island within the distance.
Ashley’s pal circle responded to the submit with picture after picture of Danika, together with considered one of her at college holding up a “ravenous reader” certificates together with her identify on it issued in June 2021.
Different images confirmed Danika as a little bit woman accumulating Easter eggs and as an adolescent nonetheless in pigtails.
One snapshot within the thread was from a earlier Christmas, displaying a beaming Ashley with Danika as a toddler, sporting a festive outfit and a tiny tiara.
