LaPorsha
Washington was embraced by family and community members before she
addressed the crowd gathered at a Houston-area Walmart on Saturday, not
far from where her 7-year-old daughter Jazmine Barnes was gunned down
earlier this week.
"Say her name," the crowd chanted. "Jazmine!"
Washington took the microphone.
"I'm
so happy to see all these faces from all over, and I thank you so much
for doing this and coming together for my baby," Washington said with
tears streaming down her face. "She's up there watching over all of us
and making sure we're all good."
Barnes
was riding in a car with her mother and three sisters Sunday morning
around 7 a.m. when a man in a red or maroon pickup truck drove up next
to their vehicle and opened fire.
Washington,
30, was shot in the arm, while Jazmine's 6-year-old sister was hit by
shattered glass. Jazmine's two teenage sisters were not harmed.
"I'm telling you, every time I see one
of y'all reach out for me, I can hold my head up," Washington said
Saturday. "I can get up in the morning."
"I
just want to thank everybody for coming out and celebrating, and
supporting this homegoing with me," she added. "And I say this is a very
special homegoing, because I got a beautiful angel up there watching
over me."
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