Jones, the youngest of four siblings, was set to move to North Carolina, where her brother Anthony, 20, lives, the day after her birthday on July 27, said Tice. "R.I.P Bbygirl, it feels good too knoe that you are in a better place," wrote Jullian Singleton. For her to not come home to her mother hurts."Ĭondolences poured into a Facebook tribute page set up in Tysha's memory. For something like this to happen to her, she didn't deserve it. "We recognize that only love will prevail to stop this evil of us killing one another."įamily friend Audrey Johnson called jones a "good kid." "Just like the civil rights movement we need to work on this until it stops," said Williams, referring to gun violence. Vernon Williams led a gathering in prayer. "Tysha and were friends," she said of the tragic girls. Pam Lewis, the Vice-President of youth programs for the All Stars Project, which hosts talent shows that Tysha and Cheyenee performed in, said everyone is in shock. "She was always singing in class whenever she had a chance and she was always getting kicked out of class for singing," said Rosemary Browne, 16, a junior. The teen's closest friends walked around the school holding candles, followed by a moment of silence and a rendition of "Bubbly."įriends at the tight-knit school said that Tysha loved to sing so much so much that she would get kicked out of class. She can be seen taking part in a talent show last year in a YouTube video. Tysha was set to take part in a talent show on Tuesday in which she was going to sing "Bubbly," by Colbie Caillat. Students at Landmark HS held a memorial service Friday for their slain classmate. "The youth are using guns to solve their problems. "It's a shame what this gun violence is doing to the youth," she said. To Baez, the death of the two young girls was unacceptable.
"Cheyenne was my only child so I know what is going through right now." "All she wanted to do was bring her mommy home a diploma," she said. "She and my daughter just really loved to dance," Baez said of Tysha, who lists singers Ciara and Beyonce, and rapper Drake as interests on her Facebook page. "She was an innocent good girl," said Lisa Baez, whose 17-year-old daughter, Cheyenne, was the innocent victim of a shooting in Harlem last October.Ĭheyenne and Tysha were friends and performed together in the Harlem's Angels dance group starting in 2003. The death of Jones, a sophomore at Landmark HS in Chelsea, sent waves of grief through the community.įamily and friends of the slain teen gathered in Harlem River Park Friday, across from where Jones lived, to console each other. We want to have fun."Īllen described her cousin as an outgoing person who loved dance. Tysha told her there's nothing to do here. "She said it was in Brooklyn and she didn't want her going there by herself.
"My aunt didn't want her to go," she remembered. Tysha's cousin, Leticia Allen, said that she was going to go on the trip, too, but decided against it because she wanted to get a new bathing suit. We were her gang, her mother, father, sister and brothers." "All the rumors about her being in a gang are not true. He dismissed speculation that his daughter's death was gang-related. "She was in the wrong place at the wrong time." She was in a dance group," he told DNAinfo. Tysha's father said his daughter dreamed of becoming a singer. "She feels if she stuck to her 'no,' her child would still be there."įriends and family have spent the past 24 hours trying to convince Tysha's mom that the death wasn't her fault. "That's what's beating her down - that she said no at first," Tice said, near Jones' home. In the wake of the deadly shooting, Cynthia Jones has been inconsolable at the loss of her youngest child. "Me and her talked about everything," he said. "You done destroyed my family," said Tysha's dad, Kevin Wilson, 49, of Flatbush, outside the girl's home on Lexington Avenue, near 130th Street, as tears streamed down her mother's face. Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
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