BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A community gathered in West Baltimore on Friday to remember 12-year-old Khloe Ishway, who was killed in the crossfire of a shooting at a park during a youth football game.
Loved ones attended a viewing service for Ishway at Wylie Funeral Home. Her funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at the Palladium Center on Liberty Heights Avenue.
Family friend Shannon Ballard said the loss has been difficult to process.
“I was crushed. I was in disbelief,” Ballard said. “I had to (be here at the viewing). I’ve known her since she was a toddler.”
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Ballard said Khloe was a familiar presence in the neighborhood.
“We live in the same community. She played with my children and I still now can’t pull up on my block without visualizing seeing her down at the end of the corner. So I had to because I need closure for myself as well,” Ballard said.
The shooting happened Oct. 3 during a youth football game at Leon Day Park. Police have arrested and charged 23-year-old Tyree Reynolds in connection with Khloe’s murder.
Investigators said Reynolds and another man had a dispute over a parking spot and that, at some point, both men opened fire. Four victims were shot, including Khloe, who later died of her injuries.
“I want justice for my daughter,” Khloe’s mother, Kristin Reese, said.
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Khloe’s grandmother, Donna Reese, spoke about the family’s grief.
“It’s just. It makes me angry. Angry. I’m very angry that this has happened. How it’s happened. And where it happened at. I’m angry like everybody else. And that was my baby,” she said.
At the viewing, family friends and relatives said they came to support Khloe’s loved ones and to grapple with what happened.
“For me, to be here with the family is just to show support, more support, to show that we here as a village, you know the hope, try to mend that little heart, that broken heart that she’s feeling, but we can’t do that, but we just show it,” family friend Marvin Tate said.
Khloe’s cousin, Nicole Hurley, questioned why the shooting happened at a children’s event.
“The question that I think everybody wants to know is why would someone come to a game, not to say with those expectations, but why would you come and do something like that with so many young children around, just running around..” Hurley said.
Baltimore police said the investigation remains open and ongoing, and detectives are still searching for a second unidentified gunman involved in the crossfire.
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