Brittney Ross is a mother of six. And she remains a mother of six even after losing two of her children to guns.
In 2023, her son Ah’Bralen was shot and killed in Northeast Dallas, the other side of the city from where Brittney’s family lived. During the early afternoon of January 10, 2024, while she was getting Ah’Bralen dressed for his funeral, she got a phone call from her older daughter. Brittney’s baby girl, Ah’Laynah, had been shot. She died, too.
Ah’Bralen and Ah’Laynah are not the only members of the Ross family to have been shot — they’ve been touched by gun violence again and again. Yet as Brittney mourns, she continues the hard work of keeping her family together.
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@allisonvsmith
Story by Joe Sexton
