18-year-old Tayshana Murphy (who was nicknamed Chicken), was shot and killed in Harlem’s Grant Houses housing project around 4:10 a.m. on Sunday morning. WABC-TV reported that friends and at least one witness told officials that she was attempting to out run a gunman in a hallway of her building when she was killed.
Murphy, a 5-foot-6 senior at New York (N.Y.) Murry Bergtraum High, was considered one of the top guard prospects in the nation and had received recruiting interest from a variety of collegiate programs. The teen planned to use her basketball talents to improve her future and help her family leave the projects which eventually claimed her life.
Murphy was wearing a hooded sweatshirt at a party with friends from her project when she was chased by the gunman in question. According to some who were at the party, Murphy was mistaken by her assailant “for a boy from the group who had fought with young man from a nearby housing project,” and she protested her innocence to the gunman.
“She was pleading for her life,” Teka Taylor, one of Murphy’s close friends, “She was saying, ‘No, please, I don’t have nothing to do with it.’”
Via: blackmediascoop.com
