Sierra Johnson, 27 and pregnant, was shot in front of her two daughters. Now her grieving family wants a chance to say goodbye.
In an hour, Skinner would meet at the same table with another family of another gun violence victim. Compassion and Serenity had become known for this kind of work — the erasure of visible
“My oldest niece, she kept talking about how her hands was wet with crayon,” Green told Skinner. “We were like, 'Crayon?’ She’s trying to say that her hands were wet with her mom’s blood, because she was shaking her to wake up.” Navigating the vast web of family birthdays had been the most difficult part of scheduling Sierra’s funeral, but they’d figured it out. Navigating her absence was far harder.Sierra’s oldest brother had taken to saying that a piece of their puzzle had been stolen from them. Their mother felt this pain so acutely that she’d stopped eating for a time. Unable to bear the quiet of her home in Southeast Washington, Johnson had begun staying with Green.
Instead she became the first of her siblings to earn a college degree, studying criminal justice at Trinity Washington University while working at Macy’s and raising three young children. But now, she wouldn’t get to plan her son’s first birthday party or encourage her daughters to attend college. She’d never know the sex of the child she was carrying — or who that child would have become.
Restoring gun violence victims to the person they’d been required care, ingenuity and good makeup. And so the half-dozen women unsnapped their cases in the viewing room. She chose from compact powders and tubes of cream with names like Madagascar, Nairobi, Ethiopia. A spectrum of pinks and browns. Using an egg-shaped sponge, she dabbed color on Sierra’s forehead and along the high planes of her cheekbones, bringing the life back to her face.Rose paused. She’d gotten into this work after doing the hair for the funeral of her 28-year-old nephew, who was shot and killed in 2020. She knew how meaningful it was for families to have a chance to say goodbye.
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