"It is approximately 110 miles between Columbus, Ohio, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
"But apparently, news travels slowly between those two communities because LeBron James and the national media have not yet mentioned Monday’s death of 13-year-old Nyaira Givens who was stabbed to death by another 13-year-old girl during a fight near her family’s home in Winton Hills, a suburb of Cincinnati.
"Givens’ father held her in his arms as the life drained away from her body, helpless to do anything to prevent her from dying.
“I held her. I watched her as she died. I watched her, you know. All I could do was just hold her, hold her,” Maurice Jackson said.
Devastation, heartache and loss are all emotions that Jackson, Nyaira Givens’ father, is feeling after her sudden death.
“I tried. I tried to stop the bleeding,” Jackson said.
"The 13-year-old Nyaira, a high school freshman, didn’t wake up Monday morning with the thought that it would be her last day on earth. But she had been involved in a series of incidents with an “off-and-on” friend from school, and there was a confrontation between them on Monday afternoon.
"Her assailant, not named in the media because of her age, made her first appearance in court on Wednesday." . . .
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