Secoriea Turner
Died on July 4, 2020
Age: 8
Gender: Female
Location of death: 1238 Pryor Rd SW, Atlanta
Agency: Atlanta Police Department
Secoriea Turner
Died on July 4, 2020
She
was shot
in
Atlanta.
Secoriea Turner was a rising third-grader at Kipp Ways Primary School who wanted to be a nurse one day. “You shot and killed a baby,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said hours after the July 4 shooting. Secoriea had been riding in a car with her mother, Charmaine Turner, when gunmen who’d blocked a portion of University Avenue fired into the car. She was 8. “I love you, Secoriea,” Turner said through tears at her child’s funeral. Police arrested a suspect who admits being at the scene but says he didn’t fire. Authorities say as many as three others are responsible.
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