You could hear the hurt, feel the loss in Dachel St. Mary’s voice as she talked about her daughter.
On Nov. 12, 2009, Tyler Jefferson, a new sailor in training at Corry Station was murdered while out for a jog in Myrtle Grove outside the base. She was only 18, recently trading in her high school graduation cap and gown for a tidy Navy outfit. She was studying information technology at Corry Station. She hoped to be sent to Japan. Maybe the Navy would be a full career, St. Mary said.
Or maybe there would be something else. After all, she was just a teenager. The future was wide open.
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