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🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Unique Harris was a 24-year-old single mother of two young boys. |
0:14.4 | In the summer of 2010, she moved from Richmond, Virginia to Washington, D.C. in hopes of starting |
0:20.9 | a new life and with a desire to be close to her beloved mother, Valencia. |
0:26.4 | A kind-hearted woman who always put family first, Unique had made the choice to go back |
0:31.4 | to school in hopes of providing a better life for her children and to make strides in carving |
0:37.0 | out a little piece of the world for herself, too. |
0:40.6 | In October of 2010, Unique's grandfather Richard came to visit and she was delighted to |
0:46.8 | see him. |
0:48.2 | She asked him to give her son a haircut and he obliged while Unique chatted with her |
0:52.5 | mother in the other room. |
0:54.9 | At night, rather than allowing her to walk home, Richard gave her a ride and made sure she |
1:00.1 | and the boys made it into their apartment building. |
1:03.8 | The neighborhood in which Unique had found a place to live was affordable but also dangerous |
1:08.7 | with a startling number of violent crimes occurring each week. |
1:13.3 | While Valencia wanted to encourage her daughter to move, she also felt it was important |
1:18.0 | to allow her to make her own decisions and she also felt secure knowing she was only a |
1:22.9 | five minutes drive away in case something happened. |
1:27.0 | On the evening of Saturday, October 9th, Richard placed a call to Unique's apartment. |
1:32.8 | They chatted for a while and Unique explained that she was hosting her younger cousin with |
1:37.1 | whom her boys were planning a movie marathon and a sleepover. |
1:41.7 | Richard could hear the children laughing in the background and told Unique that he'd |
1:45.6 | speak to her the next day. |
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