A 22-year-old woman was shot just as she was leaving a protest in Davenport, Iowa. Italia Marie Kelly was there in the parking lot of the local Walmart protesting until the protest got out of hand and was on the verge of rioting.
Just as she was about to get into the car, a bullet ripped through her back.
Paramedics tried to revive her but couldn’t. She was likely killed instantly.
Her sister was livid that her sister was shot by one of the very people she was there to support and she made a video dedicated to her sister’s death.
Jasmine Kelly said:
“A protester shot my sister! A protester! You’re so mad at the police that you’re hurting everyone else … you guys killed my sister!”
“You walk around with guns … you act and pretend to be tough, and you pretend to be something you’re not, and you got my sister killed … by your f***ing ignorance. I gotta bury my sister!”
“This was the ignorance of every single one of y’all that decided to shoot into a f***ing crowd, and that bullet just happened to hit my sister!”
Kelly joined a protest over the death of George Floyd after getting off work at a restaurant Sunday night, according to her aunt, Amy Hale of Atchison, Kansas. She lived nearby.
Kelly, who is biracial and went by the last name Impinto, and a friend were getting in a vehicle to leave around midnight because the protest outside a Walmart had turned unruly, Hale said.
That’s when she was struck in the back by a bullet that went through her shoulder and chest, likely killing her instantly, Hale said. Attempts to resuscitate her were not successful, and Kelly was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Police said they were investigating the circumstances surrounding the death and that no arrests had been made. Her family called on any witnesses to come forward with information about the shooting and for an end to violence in the city.
