Crystal Collins, 36, was shot to death outside her Minneapolis home while among a group of family members on July 16, 2016.
The news stories we read are oftentimes discarded and pushed aside by the 24-hour news cycle. But we refuse to throw these people away. These are real people. Here are their stories.
Crystal Collins, 36, was shot to death outside her Minneapolis home while among a group of family members on July 16, 2016.
Trenice Fedison of New Orleans was found stabbed and stuffed head-first in a city garbage can the day before Thanksgiving 2014. A 42-year-old man was convicted in January of Fedison's slaying.
Atlanta police say Alexia Christian, 26, escaped handcuffs and pulled a .380 pistol on them while she was detained. She was shot 10 times by APD officers, who have been exonerated. Christian's family questions what really happened.
18-year-old Sunny Giordano of Memphis was stabbed to death in a Nashville area motel on July 10. Her boyfriend has been charged with murder.
Essence Bowman, a 27-year-old wife and mother from Virginia, was struck and killed by a car while in police custody in Sulphur, Louisiana. The family is seeking answers.
Janet Wilson, 31, was shot five times by police trying to make a traffic stop in Dearborn on January 27, 2016.
Police said a gunman opened fire on DeArrea Haymond, 19, and Brendan Hudson, 25, while they were sitting in a car in a driveway in suburban Chicago in January 2016. Haymond died at the scene; Hudson is recovering.
Jokisha Brown, 35, was shot "multiple" times outside an Atlanta makeup studio on July 2, 2016. The Atlanta model and actress was also a mother to a teenage son.
Tamecca Perry, 23, was shot to death by a neighbor on March 6, 2016 outside her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The killer is the first woman on the FBI's Most Wanted list since 1950.
Toy Charda Bryant, 26, was found handcuffed, stabbed, and shot in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.
Jessica Hampton, 25, was stabbed to death in front of onlookers on Chicago's Red Line CTA train. Her boyfriend is in custody for the attack.
Stephanie Goodloe of Washington, D.C. filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend days before she was found shot to death in her home.
Police searched for the body of missing school administrator Lyntell Washington, 40, in the swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin in South Louisiana.
Regginna Jeffries danced at a vigil for two drowning victims before being fatally shot in the neck in Oakland. Police are searching for the killer.
Tovonna Holton, 15, committed suicide after friends recorded her in the shower, then posted the video on Snapchat.
Bridget Shiel, 19, was an aspiring model who was going to beauty school. Her bullet-riddled body was found in an Atlanta park on May 31, 2016.
Antoinette Brown, 52, was mauled to death by dogs on May 2, 2016 in Dallas, Texas.
Mary "Unique" Spears was hit by gunfire when a man whose advances she rejected pulled a firearm and sprayed a group of family members at a Detroit establishment.
Janese Talton Jackson, 29, was shot and killed on January 22, 2016 by a man she had rejected at a bar.
Alexandra Dean had her whole life ahead of her. The former bartender at Morton's Steakhouse had recently graduated from nursing school. Now she is dead, having been shot in the head at a Miami pool party.