Fatal shootout leaves family grieving, lawmakers and neighbors targeting ‘trap houses’
“She was a beautiful lady, smart, kind, loving,” Rita Houston, speaking, said of Shandrika Hayslett, her cousin who was killed in a shooting at a college send-off party in Douglass. (Brandon LaGrone II/The Daily Memphian)
After a weekend shootout at a college send-off party killed a woman, Memphis lawmakers and grieving family members are demanding the closure of neighborhood problem properties.
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Shandrika Hayslett gun violence Douglass Memphis Police DepartmentBrandon LaGrone II
Brandon LaGrone Jr. is a Bluff City native who has earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from LSU’s Manship School. He’s written for publications including The (Baton Rouge) Advocate and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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