Yaleah Hall
Age 17
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sister, daughter, dancer, since day one
“Leah” loved to dance, as her YouTube playlists and videos posted on social media show. And she loved her brothers and sisters.
Her sister Minah looked up to her and their eldest sister, Tiyaniah: “(T)hey showed me things my mom couldn’t,” she said. “They been there since day one.”
On Nov. 19, 2018, Yaleah Hall, 17, was shot and killed alongside Tiyaniah Rakele Hopkins, 20, in a basement on Malcolm Street in southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Police suspected a drug deal, but Captain John Ryan said that the sisters weren’t involved: “They were innocent bystanders of something that went very awry.”
