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"His cousin was trying to get some other boy and shot Troy (my baby’s father) thinking it was someone else. The gunshots just kept on going. He got shot nine times. All he was saying was, 'I’m gonna be alright. I’m gonna be alright.' And his eyes just closed. I wanted to get an abortion after that because I was just thinking, 'How am I going to do this?'”
Tiffany is the 20-year-old mother of one daughter. The father of Tiffany's daughter was shot and killed while Tiffany was still pregnant at a bar near her house. Tiffany was near the scene of the crime and was the last person Troy spoke to before he died. He was shot by a cousin of his who mistook him from someone else, and after learning of the mistake the cousin turned himself in and is now serving time for the murder.
Until recently Tiffany was living with Zaniyah in her mother's house and working at a clothing store. But Tiffany lost her job and could no longer handle the verbal abuse she and her daughter were subjected to at home and in her neighborhood, so she took Zaniyah and moved into a homeless shelter for young mothers.
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