T-shirts memorialize victims of violence
When tragedies steal away their loved ones, some people wear their pictures over their hearts.
Something about the sight of her slain son on a T-shirt makes Annice "Neda" Pierresaint beam.
There is Marlo D’Juan Jackson’s photograph on the front of a navy T-shirt, surrounded by angels’ wings printed in purple ink. And there’s his picture on a white shirt, digitally edited so it looks as though he’s standing in heaven.
Jackson was gunned down in a drug-related shooting at age 25 in November 2006. Pierresaint wears the memorial T-shirts each day to her job as a cashier at Costco.
Shoppers tell her the shirts are beautiful, she said while showing them off at her Pine Hills apartment. She looks just like her son, they say.
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