Playing with dolls, dancing and dressing up were some of her favorite activities. Her neighbors remembered her as “an angel” with a “beautiful spirit.”

“She was energetic, full of life and the sweetest little girl you could ever meet,” Nishma Morris wrote. “She always kept a smile on her face even when she was mad and if she had anything to do with it she would make sure you kept a smile too.”

Alisia JaNell Williams, 9, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was shot in the upper torso and died at the University Medical Center on Jan. 12, 2019.

“[He] lived his life to the fullest,” said Gwen Stephens, his behavioral therapist.

A sophomore at Dos Pueblos High School, he worked with his family’s nonprofit Softin Inc., offering seafaring opportunities for people in need. Full of humor, adventure and kind-heartedness, he saw his autism as a chance to raise awareness for the disabled community.

But on Feb. 15, he suffered an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Glass Factory shooting range in Santa Barbara, California. Kaiden Vague died the next day, Feb. 16, 2018. It was his 16th birthday.

He had big travel plans.

A party in Las Vegas to celebrate his mom’s birthday. A family vacation to Mexico. A trip with his two younger sisters to Disneyland.

Angel Medina, 16, was found shot in the driver’s seat of his car in a Walgreens parking lot on Feb 24, 2018, in Stockton, California. He later died at a local hospital. While he never got to see the world, a tattoo of his face is on his mother’s right arm, traveling with her as she lives out his dreams.

He shared the same name as a Puerto Rican artist who explores the themes of history, pop culture, social justice and migration through his art installations.

He lived in northeast Birmingham, Alabama, a multicultural, low-income area. He attended school in the Birmingham City district. For a Thanksgiving project in fifth grade, he wrote that he was thankful that his parents were giving him a cell phone and letting him take a vacation in Mexico. 

Miguel Angel Luciano, 15, accidentally shot himself in the head on May 21, 2018. He died at 9:55 a.m. six days later.

Outside his third-grade classroom at Pagosa Springs Elementary School, adventure was around the corner. With six siblings, he always had someone with whom to explore their hometown of Arboles, Colorado, which is near Navajo State Park and borders New Mexico.

On a Friday afternoon, one of his older siblings was on babysitting duty and sent him and two of their brothers, ages 7 and 10, to play outside. The three went to an unoccupied house nearby, and broke into a locked cabinet. Inside were two firearms. One was loaded.  

Branden Patten, 9, died in an accidental shooting on March 2, 2018, in Arboles, Colorado.

Brown hair, hazel eyes. He was a baseball player, a teammate and a friend. They called him “B.”

He studied engineering, graduated from Austintown Fitch High School in 2017, and had a passion for building and being outdoors. He loved animals, too.

On March 3, 2018, he was in his car when his drug deal was interrupted. A man approached with a gun and the intention to rob. Brandon Blair Wareham, 18, was shot in Youngstown, Ohio, and died at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital that same day.

Tae could rock a crop top like no other. There was never a dull moment when he was around.

Openly gay and proud, he was a free spirit who kept shining, even in the face of homophobia. He had supportive friends who accepted him just as he was.

On the night of Sept. 28, 2018, Teunté Lewis Rice, 18, was out with friends when he was shot and killed on Windsor Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The suspected killer was another teenager who was shot to death the very next day; he died holding the gun used to kill Rice.

He was a bull rider, registered at Chadron State College and planning to join the competitive rodeo team in fall 2018. A Facebook post shows him in a white hat and black leather chaps, sitting on the chute as if he’s ready to ride.

His 19th birthday was two months away. Football, fishing, basketball and hunting consumed him. He was an outdoorsman at heart.        

Colton J. Jensen, 18, died of a gunshot wound on May 23, 2018, in Kearney, Nebraska. Loup County Attorney Jason White said three people had witnessed the shooting and that it was accidental.

He had deep blue eyes and an affection for animals, especially dogs.

A senior at Putnam Valley High School, he was known for loving the outdoors; he often rode a dirtbike and took his girlfriend on adventures, including skipping stones together on the Hudson River. They celebrated their two-year dating anniversary on Oct. 3, 2018.

On Feb. 1, 2019, Elias Orion Knapp, 17, was playing with a gun with friends in his Putnam Valley, New York, home when he accidentally shot himself in the head. He was airlifted to the hospital, and eventually taken off life support. He died in his girlfriend’s arms.

His family remembers him as a “fun, loving, and adventurous young man.”  He loved trying new tricks on his hoverboard and snowboard, wearing his trademark smile the whole time.

He grew up playing Little League baseball. He found his true passion, however, playing soccer on the Seaford High School team. At his graduation, speakers encouraged him and his classmates to think of the future and to change the world.

Trevor “Trev” Alston McClements, 18, was shot on July 9, 2018, in Laurel, Delaware. He died three days later at Christiana Medical Center, two weeks after graduating.