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Kiera’Onna Rice, a 14-year-old Alabama girl was shot and killed after a group of teens gathered over a Facebook feud to fight and film the event to be posted onto social media. Two persons were slapped with murder and assault charges and are being held on a combined $3 million bond.

According to AI.com, the fight took place last Friday (Feb. 27) in a Birmingham park near the city’s west side around 5 p.m. Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper said the officers were called to the scene and discovered the carnage that was left in the wake of the fight. During the fighting, gunfire broke out hitting Rice and injuring two others. Rice was rushed to nearby Princeton Hospital where she died. Rice’s mother spoke with AI.com exclusively, and seemingly foretold her child’s death.

Alicia Rice told the AI.com that she heard chatter of this group fight all week along and after a phone call from her 4-year-old daughter that her oldest child wasn’t home, she sensed doom. Rice wasn’t going to go through with the fight but after threats that the group would come to her home, she decided to step up and take the challenge.

From AI.com:

Concerned, Rice told Keke to go home, and Keke said she would. “When we hung up, she texted me and said, ‘Mama, I’m sorry. But I’ve got to fight this girl and get it over with,”’ Rice said. “I said, ‘Keke, I’m going to beat your (expletive) when I get home. If they don’t kill you before I get there,’ I’m going to beat your (expletive.) I knew. I had a feeling my baby wasn’t coming home.”

“I just went to praying real hard,” Rice said. “I’d never prayed that hard a day in my life. I said, ‘My baby ain’t coming home.”’

Rice’s cousin, who was there to watch the fight, said that someone pulled out a Taser stun gun early in the fight and then the gunfire took place. In the panic in being shot, Rice was ran over by a car before someone picked her up and rushed her to the hospital.

Police took Antonio King, 17, and Jason Wade, 19, into custody. They were both charged with murder, first-degree assault, and second-degree assault. Both King and Wade are in the Jefferson County Jail with a $1.5 bond set for each.

Chief Roper said that he and his department’s “hearts were broken” after the incident. Hit the jump to see photos of the accused.

Photo: Facebook

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