A shooting in High Point causes anguish for family

On May 29 a felon gunned down my daughter, Jamila Hicks, on a High Point street. 

Jamila was originally from New Jersey. She moved to High Point about three years ago, she thought to get away from the violence in the city. 

I feel compelled to tell the residents of High Point about my daughter. Jamila was a loving mother of two children. Jamila excelled in track and had broken track records at Pleasantville (N.J.) High School. She graduated from Pleasantville High School in 1991, where she was in the National Honor Society and a member of the marching band. She attended Stockton College in New Jersey and High Point University. She had planned to re-enroll in High Point University to receive her degree. 

She never smoked or did drugs. She was never in trouble with the law. She did not deserve to be the victim of such a senseless crime. I just hope you good people of North Carolina see to it that her assailant is put away so that he does not cause any more anguish to another family ever again. 

EDDIE HICKS 

Galloway, N.J.