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Tayla Mone Auzenne

Age 18

Houston, Texas

Future student. Future doctor. Future gone.

She had plans and goals. Her dream was to become a sports medicine doctor, and she was preparing to attend Blinn Junior College in the spring to pursue her career.

“She meant the world to me, my one and only, the love of my life,” her father wrote on her GoFundMe page. The former Hightower High School student was a “very loving soul; she loved her family and her friends.”

Tayla Mone Auzenne, 18, of Houston, Texas, was shot in the chest by her boyfriend during an argument on the afternoon of Oct. 12, 2018.

By Zoe Hsu · Age 16
Meet the Reporters

More than 40 college-bound seniors

Ta Quan Pinkney

Bright future; gone too soon

Favian Isiah Carrillo Duran

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Trevon Fareed Richardson

College, football, a scholarship. All lost.

Steven J. Scott

Thanksgiving favorites: baked mac and ham

NeQuacia Porsha Jacobs-Lewis

High school graduation, diploma, career — gone

Caleb Kendall Bowman

Shot down by his best friend

Yajaira Garcia

Getting an education in Yajaira’s honor

Brandon Nash Hammett

‘The music master’ killed before college

James Garrett

He wanted to be a teacher

Colton J. Jensen

He planned to ride the rodeo

Katlyn Michelle Wittcop

Aspiring doctor hoped to fight cancer

Britney Malone

Upward bound, she never stopped striving

Casey Nicole Kizer

A summer of softball, the lake

Chris Thomas Mosley

The future was all planned out

Nicholas Dworet

Diving into the hearts of many

Javonne Micheal Jaylin Luke Davis

He’d just received a way out

Carmen Marie Schentrup

A mind to be reckoned with

DeVaughn Lorenz Perkins

Gone, but remembered by family forever

Jairo Rodriguez

Studying for future he never saw

Joe Acosta

Forced to leave his little girl