Mariah Franklin was a sixteen-year-old female resident of Independence, Missouri, whose life was tragically cut short on June 23, 2021. On that afternoon, she was at her family�s home in the 2300 block of South Crescent Avenue, preparing to go shopping with her mother for a new cell phone. Before they departed, Mariah briefly went back inside the residence to retrieve money she had been saving in a shoebox for a car. When she did not return, her family discovered she had been shot in her bedroom
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