TEQUILA FORSHEE - 12 yo - Miami Gardens, FL

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Twelve-Year-Old Girl Shot And Killed Inside Miami Home

Aug 17, 2013

By NewsOne Staff

Tequila Forshee, 12, was gunned down Wednesday night when bullets pierced the windows of her grandmother’s Miami Gardens home, reports NBC Florida.

At approximately 11:30, a gunman — or gunmen — opened fire on the home while Tequila was sitting on a couch getting her hair done.

She was later pronounced dead at the scene.

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“We’ve got a lot of Trayvons out here,” said Glenn Forshee, Tequila’s dad said. “We’ve got a lot of black on black crime. We’ve got a lot of ignorant BS, and we ain’t standing for the BS.” “My oldest daughter got grazed in the arm with a bullet,” he said. “My kids watched (their) little sister die. (They’re) torn apart.”

The  grandmother, Tawanda Frazier-Brown, was shot in the leg and released Thursday.
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“I felt something in my leg, I thought I just got hit by glass or something,” Frazier-Brown said. She said she believes her son may have been the target of the gunman or gunmen. “This is gang-related, my niece was shot in the head,” aunt Cherina Forshee said. “If anybody knows anything, has seen anything, please give the police a call, the family is just going really crazy, and we appreciate your help and support.” Glenn Forshee arrived heartbroken to the home where his daughter died. Adding to the pain, he said, is knowing his three other children could only watch helplessly. On Thursday afternoon, Miami Gardens Police went door to door looking for answers, while the 12-year-old’s father remembered the last time he saw her. “She gave me a kiss and she said, ‘goodnight daddy’. As she walked out I told her, ‘I love you’. She said, ‘I love you too daddy,’” he said. “And that was the last physical moment I had with my baby.”

Two women from the RIT Foundation, a support group for families of murdered children, led a prayer vigil for the family Thursday night.

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“Children at 12 years old are not supposed to be dying of gun violence and it’s happening too often in our community and we’re just here to offer words of comfort to the family, being that we’ve had to walk the same path. We had to cry the same tears,” Queen Brown said.

Frazier-Brown said that she wished that she had been the one killed because her granddaughter had her entire life ahead of her:

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“The last thing she told me was, ‘Thank you, Grandma, for buying all my schoolclothes. I love you.’”

http://newsone.com/2682331/tequila-forshee/

MIAMI GARDENS (CBS4) – Just hours after Miami Gardens Police went door-to-door passing out fliers, family, friends, even strangers remembered a 12-year-old shot and killed while her grandma braided her hair.

Tequila Forshee’s grandmother’s Miami Garden’s home was peppered with bullets late Wednesday night.

Tequila and her three siblings had gone to the home, at 20100 NW 42nd Avenue, to get their hair done so they would look fresh for the new school year.

“They stood out here in the streets and just shot up this house while she’s sitting there so excited to get her hair done ready to go to school,” said Latoia Crawford, Tequilla’s dad’s girlfriend told CBS4’s Maggie Newland.

“Bullets just started storming in and I thought Tequila just laid over to get out the way,” said Tawanda Brown, the girl’s grandmother. “At first I was in shock, I was totally in shock and I’m trying to get the other grandbabies, trying to get them down and I’m thinking she’s already down.”

A bullet had struck Tequila in the head. Her 14-year-old sister Alize, who the family says was grazed by a bullet, made the discovery.

“Alize said ‘grandma she’s dead, she’s not moving, she’s not moving, she’s not breathing’,” said Brown.

Two other children in the home, a 7-year old sitting next to Alize and a 10-year old in the shower, were not hurt.

Tequila’s grandmother was struck in the leg.

Tequila’s father, Glenn Forshee, told CBS4′s Peter D’Oench, “Tequila was a sweet little girl. She was an A-B student, not a wild little girl. She liked to color and play. She meant the world to me. I had custody of all four children, the three girls and a boy. Tequila was my middle child. She kept my family together.”

“I don’t know my feelings right now,” said Forshee. “I am mad and sad and I hurt. I remember the last time I said goodnight to her, said I love you and she said I love you to. She was my baby. My children are torn apart. They watched their sister die. I don’t know how we’re going to live without her. But we are going to live.”

Tequila’s family said she had a bright smile and was looking forward to starting Carol City Middle School next week.

Thursday afternoon as Miami Gardens Police went door-to-door in the area of the shooting at Northwest 42nd Ave. and 201st Street, passing out flyers and asking for help from the public. They also hope witnesses will come forward.

Tiffany Taylor, Tequila’s aunt, is devastated by her young niece’s death.

“Come forth. My baby didn’t deserve that. She was 12-years-old. She’s got a life to live,” said Taylor, adding, “She had a great childhood. It’s always what she wanted. She was bright. She didn’t deserve this. She didn’t deserve this.”

Tequila’s uncle Roscoe Brown said he thinks the bullets were meant for him but declined to say why.

“Now you happened to hit my little girl, my niece, probably going after me,” said Brown. “They went for her. They went for my house, Who shoots at a house?”

Forshee said, “I want to clear the air on this issue. My daughter tequila was not a gang member. She was an innocent bystander.”

Brown is desperate for justice for her granddaughter who will never go to a middle school social, will never go to college, and will never have children and grandchildren of her own.

“Where is your conscience? You didn’t have to kill my grandbaby like that, Oh God.”

One of Tequila’s family members said she thought the shooting may have been gang-related.

Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS.

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/08/15/girl-killed-when-shots-fired-into-miami-gardens-home/

The fellow gang members should turn in the evildoers who murdered this child. There is so much talk these days about "respect" and "pride"; someone who does something this cowardly, this monstrous (words obviously fail me here - there is nothing in my vocabulary to describe crimes like this) should be so shamed they should turn themselves in.

Too Young to Die: Tequila Forshee

10/02/13 09:02 AM



Photo courtesy of Glenn Forshee
Tequila Forshee, 12, was the heartbeat of her family.

When her parents separated, “she was the one who kept all of us together,” her father, Glenn Forshee, told MSNBC. As the middle child, “she was the glue, the bond.” Sometimes she helped her siblings so much, she grew flustered and frustrated with herself because she didn’t have enough time to complete her own chores. “Tequila was always the last one in the house crying because she couldn’t find her shoe,” her father said.

In early August she began preparing for her first day of seventh grade at Carol City Middle School in her hometown of Miami Gardens, Fla. In previous years she had perfect attendance and was often on the honor roll list. She looked forward to science class because she loved to learn about living things. But her family recently learned of her dreams to become a chef. “We all kind of laughed because, out of all my kids, Tequila was a big eater,” her father said.

Tequila always volunteered to participate in any way she could. She was the water-girl for the Miami Gardens Rams Football recreational team, and hoped to try out for the league’s cheerleading squad this fall.


Tequila was shot and killed on Aug. 14 when gunfire sprayed her grandmother’s Miami Gardens living room, where the child was having her hair braided for the first day of school. Her grandmother suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The investigation is ongoing.


http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/too-young-die-tequila-forshee