“Somebody that would kill the mother of his child don’t need to be on this earth and definitely do not need to be free because he took my daughter, my grandchild, away from me,” Anthony Smith said.

Couldn’t get her to call the people in blue to come here,” Macheryl Smith said. She said it comes from years of trying to tell Ashanti to get out of the relationship. Smith said they believe it was the father of her children who pulled the trigger. “It hurts because I know they wondered for those hours they were alone, ‘Where’s mommy? Where’s granny? Granny, where are you? Granny?,’” said Machery Smith. It’s a thought that still haunts their grandmother, Ashanti’s mother, Macheryl Smith. RELATED: Woman shot dead in Memphis overnight, police say Her family said Ashanti’s daughters were in their home on Kentucky Street alone for almost 24 hours until someone came to get them. Picture: Supplied I usually take them out for hiking, just for them to be out of the community. I just like to see the children happy, I don’t have my own but I feel like I am the aunt to them, she says. “What this monster did to her, and I want people to understand also that he took my only grandson, she was pregnant with my grandson and he took both of them,” her father, Anthony Smith, said. Ashanti even arranged for a jumping castle for the laaities and they also had books to read. Now, those two children, two and three years old, are left to grow up without a mother. Ashanti, 40, unleashes her inner dominatrix as she exposes her toned physique in a bondage inspired outfit at the 2021 MTV VMAs. That boy would have been the first grandson for Ashanti’s father, Antony Smith, who had previously taken care of Ashanti and her two children in Memphis before moving to Ohio. Smith died while 5 months pregnant with a baby boy, according to her family. While appearing virtually on the Tamron Hall Show Wednesday, the 40-year-old Grammy winner spoke about the 'surreal' moment of. (WHBQ)įamily members identified the woman as 26-year-old Ashanti Smith. Ashanti is re-recording her debut album after nearly 20 years. SEE: At least 4 killed in shootings across Memphis this weekendĪshanti Smith Pics Family members said that 26-year-old Ashanti Smith was 5 months pregnant when she was shot and killed on Ford Rd. 4, a woman was found shot to death near a home on Ford Rd., according to the Memphis Police Department. A family delivered an emotional plea for justice Monday evening after a 26-year-old woman and her unborn son were killed in a Memphis shooting.Īround 6 a.m.

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