Show LaPorsha Washington your support, send a letter today!
Jazmine Barnes, 7 years old, was shot to death on Sunday in a Walmart parking lot outside of Houston in what can be described as a drive-by shooting. Jazmine was in the car with her mother, LaPorsha Washington, 30, and her sisters when a middle aged white man with a beard pulled up next to them in a pickup truck and began shooting. Jazmine was shot and killed while LaPorsha Washington sustained a gunshot wound to her arm and is hospitalized. Washington said the killer fired into the car and “didn’t stop.” Washington was transported to Ben Taub Hospital in Houston. "…He sped in front of us and stopped and still continued to fire at us,” she said while crying from her hospital bed.
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The community is grieving. People across the country are coming together to demand justice for Jazmine so we're sending your letters of support to LaPorsha Washington so that she knows that we are with her in this struggle as we demand justice for Jazmine and safer communities for all.
This action is organized by Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, Community Justice Action Fund, Pure Justice, Houston Justice, and Women's March.