Johnetta Harrison, 14, tried to care for her siblings and hoped to be able to protect Dae’von. “I thought he should feel like he had a home and somebody to love him.” (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
Frances Hill talks with Johnetta Harrison about household chores that need to be done. Hill hopes to protect Johnetta and give her a better life than she has known. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
Johnetta Harrison chats on the phone with friends in her room after school. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
Johnetta Harrison hangs out with her friends after school. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
Johnetta Harrison does cartwheels with friends in a neighboring yard after school. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
Surrounded by friends, Johnetta Harrison, right, sits on a van outside her home. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
Johnetta folds laundry with her cousin, Frances Hill, who took her in before Dae’von was killed and who is now her permanent guardian. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
Johnetta Harrison stretches out on a reclining chair at home. She has to stay inside as punishment for getting her lip pierced. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
Johnetta Harrison, the sister of Dae’von Bailey, holds a portrait of Tylette Davis and her children. Johnetta is at the back on the left. Dae’von, who was beaten to death last July, leans on his mother’s shoulder at right. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
