Erika Evans was a young 26-year-old girl who is now remembered as the Wallace Park, Austin shooting victim
Evans was everyone’s favorite as she embraced love and art.
Erika Evans would sometimes set up a typewriter on a street corner along South Congress Avenue, a famous thoroughfare in her hometown of Austin, Texas. She would sit there on the sidewalk, smiling at people passing by, and speedily pound out a poem for anyone who stopped to chat. This weekend, her family will host a candlelight vigil on that similar spot.
Erika Evans Austin Musician Cause Of Death, Obituary, Age, Biography, Family, Parents And Latest News
Liberal woman dead in one of Portland’s safest areas because Democrats fund drug dealing gangs. Erika Evans. pic.twitter.com/vvZNNJYBTy
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Erika Evans, woman killed by gun violence in Wallace park in NW Portland. This city has been ruined by Democrats for too long. pic.twitter.com/aFvUmvN1re
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Who Was Erika Evans, Her Age, Professional Career, Family
Erika Evans was a 26-year-old poet, who was a musician and an artist. She was shot to death Friday night in Northwest Portland’s Wallace Park. She was a very “aspiring, beautiful, talented, person,” her father Paul Evans stated, looking around the park.
Paul and his wife Christine, Erika Evans’ stepmother, stepped out off a plane Thursday afternoon and went straight to the crime scene. They walked by the muddy outskirts of the park’s baseball field, retracing their daughter’s last times.
Paul Evans knelt next to tire tracks near the basketball court; detectives told him that the ambulance had driven up to his Erika’s body. Police found bullet casings here and also in her car, which was located at the Corvallis.
“It’s just so unbelievable,” Christine Evans whispered while taking photos of the park.
After the fatal shooting incident, nearby residents created a heart-shaped memorial on the basketball court. Someone printed and framed a photo of Erika Evans that the police had publicly released. A note taped to a pole stated, in part: “Don’t let this tragedy get swept under a rug.”
Paul and Christine Evans have no idea who has written the note or who set up the memorial for their daughter. It presents the best in human nature, Paul Evans said – “that there is compassion and care and regard for another person’s life. Even when Erika was an anonymous victim, (people in the neighborhood) still turned out. They still felt a community connection to her loss. I was very pleased she wasn’t just another homicide.”