Column: Three years after Tavon Tanner was shot, he and his twin sister find quiet among peaceful streets
Mellanie Washington was sitting on her bed hen it hit her: It was almost the third anniversary of the day her son Tavon was shot.
"Wow," she thought.
Three years.
She sat there for a bit, remembering: Aug. 8, 2016. A warm night, her West Side street abuzz with reports of a shooting nearby earlier in the day.
She flashed back to how she'd been relaxing on her front porch when, from out of nowhere, the bullets came, how one struck her 10-year-old son, Tavon, and how, for a long time afterward, nothing in his life, her life, her family's life was normal. She feared it would never be normal again.
Strange, she thought, sitting alone on
