Well, like I said, the story of these women fighting in the street over some man ending up with the killing of a pregnant woman really disturbed me. So I did a lot of research and I came up with a whole other story. First, though, a little information about the girl who was killed:
Shontae Trenice Williams Blanche
Shontae was described as a bubbly girl who smiled a lot, made friends easily and always stopped fights between her aunt and mother. She was a cheerleader at Dorsey High and graduated in 2003. 
She had a job (as a bank teller) and was attending Cal State Northridge. She wanted to be a probation officer.
Shontae even had a small amount of fame from appearing in a major documentary about dance culture in South Central, "Rize." Here she is demonstrating the stripper dance, she was sixteen: TO BE ADDED 
Her husband, Emery Blanche, was in jail at the time of her death but for what I couldn't find out. I did find out that she was going to name her daughter Emerion Dior Blanche for her husband and the fashion designer. The fact that she was married for two years BEFORE she got pregnant is unusual in today's world. Not much is known about Emery but one sad fact is that his wife was killed on his 21st birthday.
She had just returned to L.A. that morning of November 5th from New Orleans where she attended her grandfather's funeral. She told her grandmother that she was going to get her car washed and that was the last her family saw her alive.
No one seemed to know why she was at the fight but I found some blog entries that described Shontae in a different light:
" [some] are lying about some of Shontae's reality. She may have had tons of wonderful qualities, and clearly she was loved and cared about by many, but she was not an innocent woman. She was associated with gang activity and participated in violent acts (yes, even the taking of other lives) along with other gang members. Sometimes karma is an ugly mirror. Nothing about her death is right, but there were certainly some things in her life that were not either. " Posted by: mirror December 14, 2007 at 3:39 pm
"...... the deceased was pregnant so she should’ve had her ass in the house somewhere instead of in some BS that had nothing to do with her. she was also an active gang member in one of south l.a.’s known gangs….bet none of you knew that. .......... hopefully all these wannabe girl gang members will take this as a lesson learned. R.I.P Shontae and her unborn . ….” Posted by: Heard it all before, January 2, 2008
Ahhhhhhh, so Shontae was a gang banger? Maybe, maybe not but there are many older gangbangers who straddle gang life and a working life. Funny thing though is that a lot of them get into law enforcement. Go figure.
To be continued..............
