Harbor City

Mother Mourns Daughter Shot in Habor City

A family is in mourning after a shooting in Harbor City left one woman dead and another man wounded on Friday. 

A masked gunman opened fired at Wheatins Eatins, where 31-year-old Jennifer Ann Dickerson was working, killing her.

Valarie Holyfield, Dickerson's mother, said she just wants her daughter back.

"How can life be unfair like that? She didn't deserve none of this," Holyfield said. "This is a second time I have to bury a kid to street violence."

Dickerson was an aspiring rapper, who worked three jobs to support her music career.

She worked at Wheatins Eatins, her uncle's BBQ business, to earn extra cash. 

"She's sitting out here doing a job, being the person she is just working," said Leroy Hess, her godfather and uncle, "to become a victim to a senseless crime."

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Detectives are using surveillance video to see try and determine if he was caught on camera.

"I don't know what I want to say," Holyfield said. "I want to be mean but then my heart is breaking. I don't know what to say to the guy."

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