Naima Liggon of Waldorf, Md., was about to be a junior, was thinking about college and had just started a new job.
during what police described as a fight with other teens over sweet-and-sour sauce outside a McDonald’s at 14th and U streets in Northwest Washington. Police arrested another 16-year-old girl in the killing.in targeted areas of the city, including the nightlife corridor along the U Street bars and clubs.
describing the latest dance craze, who her mother said had “old soul” for her taste in ’90s R&B — was gone.Joy Liggon said her daughter could be “whatever she wanted to be,” even a barber, based on her self-taught talent for cutting hair. Instead, Liggon has joined a grim statistic in homicidal year in the District, the 13th person under the age of 18 killed in D.C. this year.The 14th, a 15-year-old boy, was fatally shot Saturday in Southeast Washington.
Police have said Naima Liggon was in D.C. with two other girls when the dispute erupted. At a juvenile court hearing on Monday to determine whether police had sufficient evidence to support a charge of second-degree murder, and whether the youth should be detained, a police detective testified that Liggon and another girl began hitting a 16-year old.
Liggon, more so than teachers and staff, who could get the combatants to stop. “Naima would just say to these kids, ‘What are you all doing?’” her mother said.
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