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Article: Families share painful losses
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- January 29, 2007
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OAKLAND -- Lorrain Taylor had a dream. She's had many dreams, but
this one was different. She was in a bare room and her son, Obadiah,
was there. She said, "Oh, Obadiah, don't just stand there. Give me a
hug."
He walked over, hugged her and she said, "It's going to be a good
year, isn't it?"
"Yes, Mom, it is a good year."
She woke up and it was New Year's Day 2007 and she had a vision
of what this new year might hold.
Seven years ago, on Feb. 8, 2000, Obadiah, 22, a Merritt College
student, and his twin brother, Ibade, a barber dreaming of opening
his own shop, died after they were cut down in a burst of automatic
weapon fire as they tried to start Obadiah's stalled car in a
parking lot ...