On Friday November 21, 33 year-old Tiffany Gates was stabbed to death in Southeast Washington D.C. by a former boyfriend who had been stalking her for at least a year. Gates had sought protection from Roderick Ridley, whom she had begun dating in the summer of 2007. After a series of disputes, Ridley threatened to kill Gates and proceeded to set a couch on fire in the apartment they once shared. Ridley was arrested and Gates took out a temporary protection order. She did not make it permanent however, because Ridley was incarcerated, but he escaped from a halfway house in October. According to the Washington Post, she was so afraid for her life that she had already made funeral arrangements.
Tiffany Gates was buried on November 29th.
Read the story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/24/AR2008112402763.html
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I could not sleep because Nicci was on my mind. Her birthday will be here on May the first and it will be the first birthday she will celebrate without her sister Tiffany. She was one of my best friends of 18years I miss her terribly. I think about you single day, I see women on the street that resemble her and I wish she were here. I saw this blog and thought I would leave a comment I guess I wanted to feel a tab bit closer to her.
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