The eight children killed in Shreveport—Jayla, Shayla, Kayla, Layla, Markaydon, Sariahh, Khedarrion, and Braylon were not abstractions. They were children who played in the yard the evening before they were killed, visible and alive to neighbors who saw nothing coming. Nor were Fairfax’s surviving children, Cameron and Carys.
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