Article: Broken Connections; A Fistfight, Gunshots and Two Teenage Sweethearts Are Dead. But That's Not Where the Story Ended.

WHEN YOUNG MEN CAME to her front porch in fine shoes and buttery jackets, a luxury car or SUV squeezed against her curb, Madilia "Renae" Marsh-Williams always sent them away. Was she stereotyping? Maybe. Probably. I shouldn't really think like this, she told herself . . . but she did. After all, this was her daughter she was looking out for--sweet Natasha, level-headed yet still oh-so-vulnerable--and a mother does what a mother has to do when her daughter is involved. She doesn't let the wrong element come in through her own front door. And if there was one thing Renae knew, it was to distrust any young man who showed up packing improbably expensive accouterments.

Renae wasn't home, though, ...

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