A 14-year-old girl was fatally shot in the head at a Northeast Austin apartment complex. The teen's mother is calling the shooters 'cowards.'
early Tuesday morning is speaking out. She calls the shooters ‘cowards’ for killing her daughter.
"Her name is Mikalah, her name is Kalah for everybody else. The whole complex knows her, everyone loves her, she was funny, really, really goofy, loving, and very protective over her siblings," Mikalah Franklin’s mother Teshina Guajardo said."She was grabbing him and trying to get him to safety," Guajardo said.
"I saw a black car pull in, and they just started letting shots off," Mikalah Franklin’s younger sister Tekiara Franklin said.Residents say the shooting is the latest in a long-running problem of violent incidents at the complex. And they want help, now.So Mikalah’s mother raced downstairs. "I just keep having flashbacks of how I see my sister on the truck lifeless, fighting for her life," Tekiara Franklin said."I knew they were going to tell me she wasn’t going to make it, and they said that she was brain-dead, and they said ‘do you want to see her’ and I was like, ‘no I want to go home.’ There’s no reason to stay up here if my sister is not coming home with me," Mikalah’s older sister Alena Franklin said.
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