Three days after Roanoke teen Jakolbi Taylor was fatally shot in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the city feels hurt.
The event Tuesday night was designed to give Roanoke teens a safe space to grieve Taylor’s death.
Rita Joyce, a FEDUP co-founder, said during Tuesday’s grief support session that she feels a sense of deja vu.
“I feel hurt.”“There has been such a community outpouring of just mourning,” Renea Penn Taylor, another FEDUP co-founder, said in an interview.
“They’re the ones that have their whole future ahead of them,” Penn Taylor said.

Offering support in wake of Roanoke teen Jakolbi Taylor's shooting death in Myrtle Beach