Shamara Young was 15 years old when she was shot and killed in an act of road rage in Oakland earlier this month. On Wednesday, a week after her killing, students at Oakland’s Fremont High School remembered her.

“We are honoring her, and everything that she was, and everything that she would be,” restorative justice facilitator Tatiana Chatterjee said in a statement. “And I just want to honor Shamara as the beautiful, wonderful, brave, loving person that we all loved.”

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.