Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Craig, TyQuisha Keshay March 23, 2014 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Diane Renfrow dianel14@gmail.com February 13, 2017, 2:59 pm Virginian-Pilot, The (Norfolk, VA) - December 11, 2014 BRIDGETTE WIGGINS is starting to get a decent night's sleep again. She's returned to work, too. Wiggins admits that the past few months have taken a toll. "I was staying up 24 hours at a time," she told me this week, sitting on a chair in her Norfolk apartment. You can understand the readjustment, and the pain: Wiggins buried her teenage daughter this spring, after she was cut down in a barrage of gunfire. What the 47-year-old mother can't fathom? No one will help police catch the killer. TyQuisha K. Craig - family and friends called her Quita - was just 18. She had graduated from Norview High School in 2013 and was attending Tidewater Community College. "She wanted to one day be in the FBI," Wiggins said. Quita was at a house party, something she rarely attended. What happened was so stupid, so senseless. It's a story that recurs too often, leaving tears and grief. More than 40 people attended the party. Norfolk police said an argument started inside the house in the 1000 block of St. Julian Ave., near Tidewater Drive, around 1:30 a.m. March 23. The confrontation spilled outside. At least two people had guns and began firing. Craig, who was trying to escape the whizzing bullets, was shot in the head. Another teenage girl was grazed. More than eight months later, police still don't have a suspect. That frustrates Wiggins, her family and Norfolk homicide detectives. They say lots of people have refused to say what they saw that night, even though the gunshots killed an innocent bystander. "Not one person has called in to help us with this," Sgt. Daryl Jarvis, supervisor of the homicide unit, told me. "The problem is, really, people do not want to talk at all," he continued. "That's frustrating for us." Jarvis said some of the witnesses flatly refused to say anything. That culture - be it "no snitch," or simply not getting involved - emboldens predators. They come to believe violence won't be punished. It's a dangerous notion for the rest of us. It means more grieving families and funerals. It means criminals will keep maiming and murdering with impunity until someone has the guts to say, "Enough." "If we keep ignoring these things," Jarvis said, "and keep turning ourselves away from these things, it's not going away. It's going to get worse." Why folks are giving a pass to whoever killed Craig is inexplicable. The outgoing young lady had been voted "class clown" in high school. But Craig could be serious, too. She did praise dances in church. She took criminal justice classes at TCC. She also was an organ donor. Wiggins finds some comfort that the teen's organs helped three other people. The Christmas tree in Wiggins' home is adorned with a picture of the young woman. "We have our angel on top of the tree," her mom said. Wiggins also bemoans the slayings of other teens in Hampton Roads this year. In November, two 17-year-old boys were shot dead in separate incidents in Norfolk. "It's gotten ridiculous," she said. Wiggins continues to hold "stop the violence marches" - she's led about half a dozen - and press for an arrest. She's organizing another march from her daughter's final resting place, Calvary Cemetery, to City Hall. Coincidentally, the cemetery is on the same street where TyQuisha Craig was shot. If you can help crack this case, call Norfolk police homicide at 757-664- 7023 or the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP. Tips can be left anonymously. Bring peace to a mother, and get a killer off the streets. Additional Comments: Calvary Cemetery 22- A 169 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/c/craig12721gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb