The bullet that was fired on a tragic March night into the head of 13-year-old Keoshia Ford, leaving her comatose, took milliseconds to travel from barrel to brain.
But in a way, the crime began months before.
“If they had done something then … that girl would be walking,” said Willard Talley.
Talley lives on Bennett Avenue, the street where Keoshia was shot. Next to him is 2012 Bennett Ave., now vacant. For months, it was occupied by Horisa Trotter, a 35-year-old mother of eight, who was renting the house through a Section 8 subsidized voucher.
Keoshia was outside Trotter’s home the night of the shooting.