Ja'Niah Bryant lost her best friend on April 20 when her older sister was fatally shot by a police officer outside their foster home in Columbus, Ohio.
. A little over a week after Ma'Khia's death, city leaders said they requested a Department of Justice investigation following a series of police killings of Black people in Columbus.MORE: Ma'Khia Bryant's family demands answers, investigations into teenager's death
Ja'Niah told"GMA" she called 911 the day of the shooting. In a recording of the 911 call obtained by ABC News, she can be heard urging police to"get here now," over screaming in the background, because there were"grown girls over here trying to fight us, trying to stab us." The foster home"did the best they could with what they had available," Bryant family attorney Michelle Martin told"GMA."According to Martin, things escalated on the day of the shooting when a young woman who used to live at the foster home asked the sisters to clean up after a party the night before.
The sisters"felt unsafe and began to be attacked," she said. They called their grandmother and also their foster mother, Angela Moore, who was at work at the time -- and, eventually, 911, Martin said."She was being a bigger sister," said Ja'Niah."She was trying to protect herself."
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