Jayla Summayah T. Green
Age 16
Newark, New Jersey
New school. Treasured child. Candlelight vigil.
She had recently transferred to a new school, where she was a cheerleader. She was loved: Her mother appears to have a necklace-like tattoo of her only child’s first initial and, below it, the word “mom.”
At her mother’s request, local activists brought balloons to University Hospital, where they had taken her. “Nothing will ever be the same,” her mother posted.
Jayla Summayah T. Green, 16, was shot in the head on Jan. 26, 2019, in Newark, New Jersey, while attending a candlelight vigil for two friends killed in a car crash. She died two days later. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka called the shooting a “cowardly act of hatred.”
