shot and killed in St. Petersburg<\/a> is speaking out as police continue to search for suspects.<\/p>\nPolice say Tyrone Howard was found shot inside his car after it crashed on Emerson Avenue South around 2 p.m. last Sunday. His 14-month-old daughter, Amira, was in the backseat but was not hurt.<\/p>\n
Howard\u2019s fianc\u00e9, Makayla Graham, says the little girl doesn\u2019t understand what happened \u2014 only that her dad is suddenly gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has moments where she\u2019s asking for her Dada,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n
Makayla says she is also expecting the couple\u2019s second child, a son she plans to name after his father.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou took away a father of two beautiful babies, one unborn, hasn\u2019t even met him. You broke a family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Howard\u2019s mother, Melissa Jackson, says the family is holding tight to memories and determined to make sure his children grow up knowing who their father was.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s going to be plenty of pictures, stories, family time, love,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n
She also had a message for the person responsible.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody should want a mother standing here in pain,\u201d she said. \u201cYou always have a choice. Before you pull that trigger, you have a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, Graham says her focus is on raising Amira and her unborn son, Tyrone Howard III, and making sure they know how much their dad loved them.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was the light of his life,\u201d Graham said. \u201cHe was so excited for his son.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police are asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact them. They say no detail is too small.<\/p>\n
The family has also started a GoFundMe<\/a> to support Makayla and her children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say Tyrone Howard was found shot inside his car after it crashed last Sunday. His 14-month-old daughter,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}