Family of DeShayla Harris Hires fmr. LG Justin Fairfax as Attorney
DeShayla🌹Harris. Though most of the media attention around the events of March 26, 2021 in Virginia Beach have been focused on Donovon Lynch, another person was also killed that night: DeShayla Harris. She was only 28.
That Harris has been inexplicably forgotten even though she was also tragically shot to death on March 26, 2021 is a testimony to how gun violence has become so commonplace. No one in authority has said who killed Harris. Now Harris’ mother has hired fmr. Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax as the family’s attorney. In Fairfax negotiated at $3 million settlement for the Lynch family.
Harris was killed on the same night as Donovon Lynch who was shot by Virginia Beach Police Officer Solomon Simmons. But her story has received nowhere near the media attention as Lynch, primarily because Lynch is related to superstar recording artist Pharrell Williams. Williams kept Donovon Lynch in the news and moving his Something In the Water music festival from Virginia Beach to D.C. in 2022 citing “toxic energy” after Donovon’s killing.
"We want to get justice for DeShayla," Fairfax told 13News Now today. "There are still a tremendous number of unanswered questions. That family deserves peace and closure," he added.
It has been reported that Harris was struck and killed by a stray bullet. No one has reported who shot the fatal bullet that killed Harris.
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