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Family hosting plate sale to honor east side shooting victim

A young woman was shot and killed while still in a car parked in the driveway. It happened last Sunday on the city's east side, yet police are still searching for clues.

Nearly a week after 24-year-old Grace Seward was shot and killed in a driveway on the city's east side, her family is still searching for answers.

Police say Seward and another woman got into an argument with two other people at a nightclub last Sunday morning. When they left, the suspects followed them to a home on Gorman and shot them both in the chest while they were still parked in the driveway. Seward later died at the hospital, but the suspects got away.

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"Nisha that was with her in the car, she is awake," said Janik Alexander-Smith, Seward's cousin. "That is good for us because she was there. As soon as she can speak and says who it was, I hope they catch them."

The family is hosting a plate sale at Comanche Park Sunday at 11 a.m., followed by a balloon release at 4:15 p.m. to help honor Grace Seward.

"She was just a bundle of energy," Alexander-Smith said. "I loved coming to Thanksgiving coming to Christmas, I would be like, 'where my cousin Grace at?'"

She said there's one message she hopes echoes through the community: this senseless gun violence needs to stop. "Honestly, nothing is worth killing somebody else for," Alexander-Smith said.

Police urge anyone with information to give them a call.

Crime Stoppers may pay up to $5,000 for information which leads to the arrest of the suspect(s) responsible for this murder.

You can support the family by donating to their GoFundMe page.

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