It can happen to anybody. So we've been working on this issue for 10 years and I've never

met anyone that said they knew it would happen to them. Everyone we know from the big mass shootings that are

well publicized to people like us that were shot in a single incident no one

ever says yeah we knew what's going to happen everyone

thinks it won't happen to them everywhere but it does a gun violence can happen

anywhere and everywhere.

Judy Richardson knows too well that gun violence can happen to anyone.

And she also knows what it can take from a family.

Judy has been a voice for victims of violent crimes

and an advocate for closing the loophole

that put a firearm into the hands of her daughter's killer.

In this two-part series, you'll get to know Darien Richardson through the memories of her mother.

You'll hear about the happy, determined, kind, friend to all woman whose life was cut short,

and the frustrating dead-end details of her case that have left her family without answers for over a decade.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is part one of Darien Richardson's story, told by her mother Judy Richardson on Dark Down East. She was our first baby. She was our first baby. She was energetic. She was, she was energetic.

She was busy.

She was always smiling.

She was very kind.

She just. very kind. She was a really good kid. She was a really good

fun baby and little girl. She basically stayed that way. She was very social, like a little too

social sometimes I would worry about her, you know she was really cute and like hi to

everybody and those things you worry about as a mother.

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