Dominique Taylor will never forget the sound of her daughter’s voice, the night a crowd dragged her out of her apartment on Prairie View A&M University’s campus.
“She called me, and I could hear it—something was off,” Taylor said. Her daughter, Daijha, a student at Prairie View A&M University, had gone out to a SpringFest party with friends. That uneasy feeling turned out to be a mother’s worst nightmare.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, April 13, everything escalated. Daijha and her roommate, Dana, were attacked at their off-campus housing complex, The Phases. According to Taylor, a group of around 15 people, mostly girls but some boys, vandalized the property, kicked in the door, and dragged Daijha out of her apartment…