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McClain\u2019s mother hopes the billboard near Interstate 17 and Washington Street leads to justice.(Arizona’s Family)<\/p>\nPHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A Valley mom is hoping a new billboard in central Phoenix will help bring in tips in the 2021 murder of her daughter.<\/p>\n
Friday marks four long years since a 23-year-old Destiny McClain was gunned down in front of a food truck near 17th Street and McDowell Road. Despite surveillance cameras that captured the incident, there hasn\u2019t been a single arrest in her case.<\/p>\n
Brenda Gilliam-Miller, McClain\u2019s mother, hopes the billboard near Interstate 17 and Washington Street leads to justice. \u201cI miss her being around. I miss talking to her. I just miss everything about her. So to have to wake up, to commemorate the worst day of my life is just extremely difficult,\u201d said Gilliam-Miller.<\/p>\n
McClain\u2019s mother hopes the billboard near Interstate 17 and Washington Street leads to justice.(Arizona’s Family)<\/p>\n
McClain was out with a friend on July 18, 2021, when someone drove by and opened fire. \u201cThey were waiting in line to order food and when he bent forward to count money, that\u2019s when the shooting started,\u201d Gilliam-Miller explained. \u201cShe lost her life trying to be a good friend and doing something that she normally wouldn\u2019t do because she was a homebody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gilliam-Miller said time hasn\u2019t brought closure. \u201cThis isn\u2019t something you ever expect and it\u2019s not something you ever heal from. Here it is, four years later and it\u2019s just like it happened yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sometimes it\u2019s almost as if the world has moved on, but Gilliam-Miller can\u2019t. \u201cWe\u2019re struggling every day, just trying to just make it through the day and this person is just walking around freely,\u201d she described.<\/p>\n
She said a billboard near I-17 and Washington Street that highlights her daughter\u2019s case was donated. She is hopeful it will bring the answers she\u2019s been waiting for.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hope is that this billboard will either put some type of conviction in someone\u2019s heart to come forward or spark something and someone who might have been there that night,\u201d said Gilliam-Miller.<\/p>\n
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McClain’s mother says time hasn\u2019t brought closure.(Arizona’s Family)<\/p>\n
For her, it\u2019s more than just a message; it\u2019s a plea to the thousands of drivers that will pass by every day. \u201cTo know that people are walking around and know what happened and they just don\u2019t care, that\u2019s hard because she would have been the first person there to help them,\u201d Gilliam-Miller explained.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information in Destiny\u2019s case is asked to contact Silent Witness<\/a>. You can remain anonymous and you can help bring closure to a family that\u2019s waited far too long. <\/p>\n See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n