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Laura Washington

Commentary: ‘Do we need AR-15s?’ Mother who lost a daughter to gun violence demands action

Mary Dieudonne-Hill, a mother who lives in south suburban Homewood, knows all about the pain gun violence inflicts on a family.

In 2016, her daughter, Alisia, was attending North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, she recently told me in an interview. “She was the last of five kids. She was the youngest. She had a very bright future. I invested a lot in my daughter. She did a cotillion. She had a scholarship for engineering in North Carolina A&T.”

On a terrible October night, Alisia, 19, was playing cards with friends at an off-campus party. A fight broke out. Someone started shooting. Alisia was fatally shot, along with another student, Ahmad Campbell, 21.

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