Though she had a petite frame, relatives say Sharde “Tiny” Cooper had an outsized personality, an energetic spirit and a generous nature.
For months, Cooper, 21, had been gifting bottled water and snacks to the letter carrier who delivered mail to her Metairie apartment complex. After learning that Cooper had been critically wounded in a shooting outside the apartments on the night of June 24, the carrier made it a point to track down her mother, Katisha Cooper.
“She told me, ‘Your baby was so full of life,'” Katshia Cooper, 39, said Tuesday…