The photo captures a grief-stricken mother at her 8-year old daughter’s grave site-- a little girl felled by a bullet in North Miami-Dade.
Rosalind Brown is lying down on the freshly planted grass clutching a blanket near Jada Page’s temporary grave marker.
The photo, widely shared on social media, comes with a plea: look at this mother’s pain. Help find whoever killed her baby.
Page was shot in the head outside of her father’s home. She succumbed to her injuries at the hospital on August 30. Police have not made an arrest in the case.
“I don’t understand why the community won’t talk,” said Brown at a rally on Thursday. “She was eight. She was innocent. What would be a reason for withholding information because I know people know.”
Brown, her family and friends came together just blocks away from where Jada was killed to once again plead with the public to come forward with information about the shooting.
Brown said she is weak from the loss of her baby girl, but she has to find strength to keep the message out there, “We need justice for Jada.”
She started a GoFund Me page to raise an additional $25,000 to double the Crimestoppers reward in the hopes that more money will lead to a credible tip.
So far, she’s raised $4, 500.
Activist Tangela Sears challenged every church in Miami-Dade to help increase the reward by pledging $1,000.
Chiquita Butler with Logos Baptist Church in Miami Gardens made the first pledge. Brown is a congregant at the church.
“The enemies that are out there need to know that this child was loved,” said Butler. “The community is her family and we’re not going to rest until we find out who did this horrible thing to her.”
Chiquita Butler with Logos Baptist Church in Miami Gardens pledged $1,000 to the Crimestoppers reward for any tip leading to the arrest of Jada Page's killers. Family members are hoping that perhaps money will get people to talk. The reward is $25,000-- they're looking to double that. #gunviolence #justiceforjada #wlrn #jadapage #miamidade A video posted by Nadege Green (@nadegegreen) on Sep 23, 2016 at 3:42am PDT
Brown said she’s still trying to process losing her child in a horrific act of violence and seeing social media posts with #justiceforjada and #ripjada.
“Is she really a hashtag? I wake up every morning like, “‘No. No,’” she said.
Brown visited Jada’s gravesite a day ago, she wanted to be close to her baby. While there, Brown told her daughter, “Mommy loves you. I wish I could change it. I wish it could be me instead of you.”
She said she cried and laughed when she recalled not too distant memories of smothering the fourth-grader’s face with kisses.
And she promised her baby, “Mommy will find out who did this.”
