Chattanooga Police Department officers work the scene of a fight that broke out Monday night in the College Hill Courts near Poplar St., leaving 15-year-old Shaviya Vinson dead of a stab wound to the chest. Anissa Wells, 17-year-old sister of the victim, and Renee Cross, age 23, were also injured in the attack when they say a group of about 10 females rushed the three of them as they were walking along the street.
Anissa Wells holds her head in her hand as she sits on the curb along Poplar St. in the College Hill Courts Monday night as Chattanooga Police Department officers work the scene of a fight that broke out, leaving 15-year-old Shaviya Vinson dead of a stab wound to the chest. Wells, the sister of the victim, and Renee Cross, age 23, were also injured in the attack when they say a group of about 10 females rushed the three of them as they were walking along the street.Shaviya Vinson never will get the chance to open Christmas gifts four days from now.
The freshman student at Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy never will graduate from high school.
She’ll never get a shot at her dream of becoming a gospel singer.
Shaviya, 15, was a bystander Monday when about 10 people rushed 23-year-old Renee Cross over an unpaid baby-sitting fee of $20, according to witness accounts.
The teenager was fatally stabbed in the heart with a pair of purple-handled scissors, which later were found bloodied on the ground with other objects, including a stick and metal rack used in the attack, police said.