Teen, mother involved in deadly group fight tell their side
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A teen and her mother who were involved in a Friday night fight that turned deadly are telling their side of what happened.
Kayla Goggins, 18, was shot in the chest during the brawl in the 6500 block of Crandall Circle. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said Goggins, the mother of a nine-month-old, died at the scene despite life-saving efforts by paramedics.
Latisha Davis said a group or males and females, which she said was composed of about 12 people, went to her home around 11:00 p.m. Friday to fight her 14-year-old daughter. Police said they were previously called to Davis’ home around 9:30 p.m. on Friday for a disturbance but didn’t find anything.
Davis said, “I’m out here with a group fighting for my daughter because of some bull because that’s exactly what it was over, some bull.” Davis added, “I’m trying to keep the boys off of my daughter and the girl who got shot came up next to me and one shot went and she went down. When I saw her go down I went down to try to help her,” talking about Goggins.
Davis said the group was armed with a gun, tasers, and knives and wanted to fight her teen daughter over a boy. Davis teen daughter added some in the group wanted to fight her because they believed the teen girl had been talking badly about them.
The 14 year old, who asked she not be identified, said she looked at a couple of the girls in the group as older sisters. She said she was tased on her back several times by members of the large group who went to her home to fight.
When asked if she’s afraid of the group returning to her home, the teen answered, “Yeah. I’m not worried about me, but my grandmother be in this house. She doesn’t need all of that over here at her house. It’s disrespectful.”
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said they’ve made 12 runs to the Crandall Circle Home between November 2014 and April 2015. The runs included four times for disturbances, three times for investigations, three times for animal runs, one time for a warrant, and once for a suspicious person. IMPD spokesman Officer Kendale Adams said this is not uncommon.
Davis said, “We’re not innocent. We’re definitely not angels over here. The cops have been here because me and my kids were getting into it.”
While Friday was the first time police were called to Davis’ home for a shooting, she said she wishes it’s a call that never had to have been made.
“It’s just senseless. My prayers go to Kayla’s mother, though, and her baby. I couldn’t imagine it,” Davis said.