The youngest, Ja’Kenlie, doesn’t quite understand she’s gone. The oldest, Ja’Kobie, talks about his mother. Now the family is focusing on Ta’Kiya’s sons, ages 6 and 3. The police union has said that calls to charge the officer before an investigation is complete are premature.Īhead of Young's funeral, her paternal grandmother, Nadine Young, who helped raise her, recalled Ta’Kiya (tah-KEYE'-ah) as a high-spirited prankster and a popular, “fun-loving, feisty young lady" who nevertheless struggled with the sudden death of her mother last year, and who was just beginning to find her way in life. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is leading the investigation. Young’s family wants the officer who shot her to be immediately fired and charged in her death and the death of her unborn child. The confrontations have prompted widespread protests and demands for police reform.
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24 encounter between Young and police, captured on bodycam video released last week, was the latest in a troubling series of fatal shootings of Black adults and children by Ohio officers, and followed various episodes of police brutality against Black people across the nation over the past several years. Young was a “smart girl” who was “beautiful inside and out." “It shouldn’t have happened,” Rivers, tears streaming down her cheeks, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The powerful voices of a gospel soloist and backing choir filled the sanctuary.ĭanielle Rivers, Young’s maternal grandmother, who buried Young’s mother just a year ago, said it still hasn’t hit her that she's lost both a daughter and granddaughter. The body of her unborn daughter, wearing white, lay in her mother’s embrace. Instead, Young’s grieving family held her funeral on Thursday, exactly two weeks after a police officer in the Columbus suburbs fatally shot her in her car in a supermarket parking lot.Ībout 100 people showed up at the Church of Christ in Columbus for Young’s service, many of them dressed in various shades of vibrant pink - her favorite color.įamily and friends, tearful and clutching tissues, entered the church’s sanctuary to view Young’s body, dressed in bright fuchsia under a clear casket cover that was illuminated in pink light.
She applied for public housing and looked forward to the day when she and her growing brood would have a place to call their own. She scheduled a photo shoot to show off her baby bump. The 21-year-old Ohio mom and aspiring social worker bought a stack of adorable onesies in anticipation of the baby’s arrival. When Young found out she was pregnant with her third child - a girl - she was thrilled. The royal life also awaited her unborn daughter. COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ta’Kiya Young treated her two little boys like kings, dressing them sharply, letting them have too many sweets, cooking them big gourmet meals of T-bone steak with broccoli, cheese and rice.
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