In Indiana, 24-year-old girl was shot because of the phrase 'all lives matter'

On the night of July 5, a 24-year-old Indiana mother was shot and killed in front of her fiancé after uttering the phrase “all lives matter” during an argument with Black Lives Matter supporters, she writes. The Daily Mail.

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Jessica Doty Whitaker was walking with her fiancé, Jose Ramirez, and two friends near Canal Walk Park at approximately 3 a.m. on July 5. According to Ramirez, at some point in the conversation, one of the group used a slang version of the 'n' word. People nearby - four men and a woman - heard this and started an argument. Offended, they shouted, “Black lives matter,” to which Whitaker responded, “All lives matter.”

Robert Doty, the father of the victim, confirmed that it was his daughter who said the phrase. According to Ramirez, both groups threatened each other with weapons, but eventually dispersed.

“We thought they were gone, but they were sitting on St. Clair, waiting for us to go under the bridge. Then they shot her,” Ramirez said.

The suspect reportedly started firing from a nearby bridge and soon fled the scene.

Ramirez says he hugged Whitaker when she was mortally wounded.

“I actually held her when it happened. She just fell,” he said.

He admits that he returned fire on suspects, but said that it was “just a reaction.”

“I didn't see anyone. I hope I didn’t hurt anyone,” Ramirez says.

Whitaker was taken to a local hospital, where she died from her wounds.

"I'll never be able to hug her again," said the victim's mother, Arlena Doty. “I just want those responsible to be brought to justice.”

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Whitaker worked as a nurse at home. The next year, she was going to marry Ramirez. She left her three-year-old son Grayson.

“He has a mom that he probably won’t even remember when he’s older,” Ramirez said. The man cried while talking about his bride.

“She shouldn't have died. She has a three-year-old son whom she loved very much. It's hard to tell him that his mom is in heaven, and if he wants to talk to her, he'll have to look up and say, "I love you, mom." So far he doesn’t even understand what’s happening,” he says.

Whitaker is one of three fatalities in the area in the past week, and one of numerous gunshot victims over the Independence Day weekend.

Indianapolis residents urged city officials to make the area safer. Ramirez asked why the curfew was not imposed in the city center.

"Our message is that the area continues to be a safe place," Indianapolis City Capt. Jerry Leary said.

Loved ones have created a GoFundMe page to help cover Whitaker's funeral expenses and raising her son. About $35 has already been raised. The fundraising goal is $000 million.

“Jessica was a wonderful mother, sister, daughter, fiancée, friend, aunt, cousin and colleague,” the accompanying message reads. “She was loved by many and will certainly be missed by many.” Everyone was happy as long as she was around. She doesn't deserve to die like that."

“I am so emotionally lost,” her father wrote on Facebook. - I love you baby".

Family members called for the Black Lives Matter movement to be identified as a terrorist group, repeating a similar statement by Rudi Giuliani, a supporter of President Trump.

There were dozens of shootings and deaths across the United States over the Independence Day weekend. At least 41 people were shot in New York City, six of them dead, overnight, police said. A 21-year-old man died after he was shot in the chest around 00:45 a.m. on July 5 in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Two hours later, a 23-year-old man was shot in the back in Harlem and taken to the hospital. A 40-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest on Sutter Avenue in Brooklyn. A 19-year-old was shot in the chest and a 27-year-old was shot in the shoulder in East Flatbush. The 19-year-old was later pronounced dead at hospital.

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One of the children killed in Chicago was identified by her family as seven-year-old Natalie Wallace. The girl played near her grandmother’s house in the Austin city district during a party on July Fourth, when a car drove up, three men got out and started firing indiscriminately. Natalie was shot in the head.

“Chicago is heartbroken,” Chicago Police Chief Fred Waller said. “A seven-year-old girl was taken from us. She was visiting family. She's gone."

Mayor Laurie Lightfoot tweeted: “Tonight, a 7-year-old girl in Austin joined the list of teens and children whose hopes and dreams were broken by a gun barrel. We cannot get used to it and harden. We are making progress in reducing firing, but we must do better, each of us. ”

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