Interpreting Tamasha Murphy's Tragic Story

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Interviewing Tamasha Murphy, a single parent was telling her tragic story by saying her son was shot after having an altercation about her son’s cell phone has been taken. After Ms. Murphy telling her son to leave the situation alone and leaving for work, Ms. Murphy then comes back home from work and she starts to get worried. A few moments later, Ms. Murphy received a phone call saying that her son has been shot. Ms. Murphy says that it felt like someone just came and took her heart out. She grabs her younger children and put them in the car and rushes where her son had been shot. By the time she got there, the paramedics were already on their way to the Grady hospital. By the time, Ms. Murphy got to the hospital, the doctors were saying

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