INDIANAPOLIS -- Jasmine Myers, a junior at Warren Central High School, will give a difficult speech Tuesday to her classmates about the deaths of her parents. They were gunned down inside their east side home 11 years ago.
"I want to give you the knowledge that gun violence is a terrible problem," Myers said. "I felt like gun violence happens so often that I just should speak about it. And bring my own story to it."
Myers, then 7 years old, said she remembers waking up from a nap to a knock on the door.
A man who her parents knew was at the door, demanding money and drugs.
"My dad was trying to reason with him," Myers said. The girl was in the kitchen when her mother moved to protect her.
"He opened fire and I see my mom just fall to the ground," Myers said. "She took so many bullets for me."
She and her aunt got out through the back door.
All she as left of her parents are photos, memories and a call to stop the violence that has only grown since her parents' murders.
She believes in expanded background checks and restrictions on high-capacity magazines. She hopes her story will challenge young people to find peaceful solutions and stop the violence, both in Indianapolis and across the United States.
"Even though that was my tragedy, I triumphed through it and became a better person because of it," Myers said.
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