family. But on December 30, 2006, when Richard was nine years old, everything changed. A car parked in San Francisco was sprayed with bullets, killing three people inside. Savannah was one of them. She left behind two little girls, ages four and eleven. They moved in with Richard, Jasmine, and Derick. Jasmine treated her nieces as daughters, but it was hard on everyone. The girls had lost their mother.