{"id":14961,"date":"2012-06-04T16:36:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2012-06-04T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:36:27","slug":"mom-to-accept-diploma-of-her-slain-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14961","title":{"rendered":"Mom To Accept Diploma Of Her Slain Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last July, the life of <strong>Ms. Vanetta Scott<\/strong> changed forever. <strong>Ms. Iesha Washington<\/strong>, her 18-year-old daughter, was fatally wounded while attending a party.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the tragedy, <strong>Iesha<\/strong> was a rising senior at Spoto and would have graduated this month. On Thursday evening, her mother will accept her diploma instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Scott<\/strong> said, \u201cI am so grateful to the school board, the principal, and the assistant principal for this. I\u2019m just grateful and honored to know that she will get her diploma. The school is giving me and my family a table, at the graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful that I\u2019m still standing and it has almost been a year. I just need people to know that God is good, and I put my trust in him daily and consistently. I have been ill, I have been in the hospital, but I\u2019m still here. I thank God because He has given me some peace to know that He is too wise to make a mistake,\u201d <strong>Ms. Scott<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Scott<\/strong> said <strong>Iesha<\/strong> planned to seek a career as an ESE teacher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iesha<\/strong> and <strong>Craig Thompson<\/strong> were both fatally wounded while attending a party. The shooting took place at the International Chemical Workers Union Council, Local 439, July 29, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, law enforcement determined that more than one person fired the fatal shots at the party.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested<strong> Tyrell Sidney Bragg<\/strong> and charged him with the murder of <strong>Iesha Washington<\/strong>. He is currently awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>No arrest has been made in the shooting of <strong>Thompson<\/strong>. However, the investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The graduation ceremony will take place at 4:30 p.m., on Thursday, June 7th, at the Florida State Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: Ms. Vannetta Scott, center, is shown with two of her daughters,\u00a0Ishia Washington, left, and Iesha Washington, on the right.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Last July, the life of Ms. Vanetta Scott changed forever. Ms. Iesha Washington, her 18-year-old daughter, was fatally wounded while attending a party. At the time of the tragedy, Iesha was a rising senior at Spoto and would have graduated this month. On Thursday evening, her mother will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}