14-Year-Old Girl Shot Dead Over Facebook Feud

A 14-year-old girl, Kierra’onna Rice, was shot dead at a park by two teenage boys during a fight that started on Facebook. Reports say a bail of $1.5 million each has been set for her alleged murderers; Antonio King, 17, and Jason Wade, 19.

According to news.com.au, as the teenage boys are held at Jefferson County jail, the girl’s family have spoken about the bullying that the girl known as ‘Keke’ suffered from girls on Facebook.

“It was supposed to be a group fight,’’ 14-year-old Arreonia Westry, a close friend of Keke’s who was there to watch, told al.com.

Keke, described by her friends as the peacemaker in their tight-knight group, at times wanted to go through with it, and at other times she was afraid.

“We told her she didn’t have to come if she didn’t want to,’’ said Keke’s cousin, 15-year-old Destiny Senior. “But they had said if she didn’t come out there, they were coming to her house.”

“I knew something was going to happen,’’ Destiny said. “I got butterflies before. I just knew.”

Keke’s mother Alicia said she knew about the bullying and did not want her daughter to go to the planned fight.

“She text me and said, ‘Momma, I’m sorry. But I got to fight this girl one more time.’ That’s what she told me. She didn’t tell me where she was when she hung up. And text me and said, ‘I got to fight her one more time, not one more time but I have to fight her and go and get it over with,’” Alicia told MSNews Now.

The fight between the girls soon went out of control.

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“It didn’t go as planned,’’ said Destiny. First someone pulled out and fired a Taser stun gun. Then there was gunfire and chaos ensued.

Keke was one of three people shot. The identities of the other two have not been released, but they are expected to survive.

“Everybody took off running,’’ said Arreonia. “I turned around because I knew Keke was behind me, and she was on the ground.”

Friends and police said after being shot, Keke was run over by a car in the panic that followed the shooting. She died in at Princeton Baptist Medical Centre less than 30 minutes later.