Ken McClendon

It was presumed because of her special condition, she would never excel and never achieve and great feat, yet watching our daughter walk across the stage at Bishop McNamara High School with honors, then going to Ball State and graduating with honors, then graduating at Syracuse with honors, and then staying here in Southeast Washington D.C., when she could have gone anywhere.

What we do know is that out of cowardice, a young man grabbed my daughter and put himself between the bullet and his life.