Tamika Washington, 23, was a woman from Fairfield, Alabama whose life ended in gunfire on June 20, 2015, outside the place she called home in the Demetrius Newton public-housing community. Reports described her as being on the front porch when she was shot, in a neighborhood that�by daylight�was simply where families lived, children played, and neighbors watched each other�s doors.
As word spread through Fairfield, the killing began to feel connected to the fear that had already settled
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