✝️ Bridget Shiel, age 19 – January 31 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 🇺🇸💔
Bridget grew up in Washington, D.C. and was raised by her grandparents. Her father was not in her life and she rarely saw her mother. She grew up studying ballet and playing soccer.
She was teased when she was younger and she had low self-esteem. Her first year of high school was a success but then Bridget’s life went downhill. Briget’s grandmother explains that Bridget began hanging out with the wrong people in D.C. so she was happy when she decided to move to Atlanta with her mother. Bridget became a model when she got to Atlanta. She featured in Ghanaian hip-life artiste, Criss Waddle’s Biegya Song. Shortly before her murder she told a friend she was pregnant, but her autopsy showed that she was not.
Bridget was in an abusive relationship. On February 13 she had called the police for being hit in the mouth by her then ex-partner. „I don’t want you guys to go to the house because he said if I call the police he’ll kill me,“ Bridget says on the 911 recording. He was older, spent some time in and out of jail. And there were claims from friends and the community, from others, that he was perhaps part of an underground organization, a gang. Her grandmother sent her money a day before her murder, because she needed a place to stay. She wanted to not stay with her ex.
Bridget advertised as an escort on Backpage. Friends recall she was in desperate need of money. On the night of her murder she was seen by a witness at a Shell gas station sitting inside her car. Along with her were two unidentified men, and although the vehicle was later confirmed to be hers, she wasn’t the one behind the wheel. It’s suspected that she was being held against her will at that time. According to that same witness, Bridget didn’t look overly distraught as she sat in the passenger seat, but she did seem “extremely nervous.”
Bridget was shot seven times. She had multiple gunshot wounds to her back, buttocks and legs. The person that killed Bridget used ammo called Radically Invasive Projectile aka R.I.P. bullets. The bullets enter soft targets, closed, and then exploded