Breaunna Floyd might have been a teacher, maybe a social worker. She was such a good student, so helpful ? and so trusting, family members say.
Breaunna, who would have turned 14 on Sunday, was murdered last summer in her Baltimore County home.
Carl Evans, her stepfather, is charged with stabbing her more than 25 times. Emergency officials found her body after responding to a fire at the home.
A second postponement has pushed back Evans? trial date to July. Breaunna?s mother said that whenever it begins, she?s not sure how much she?ll watch.
“My whole life has changed,” said Kenya Evans. “She was a beautiful person, and I just don?t understand.”
Breaunna spent almost her entire life in Maryland. She was sometimes shy, Evans said, but she loved singing and watching videos ? the rap artist Lil? Romeo was one of her favorites ? and, like any teen, she loved shopping at the mall.
“She just started coming into her own little style,” Evans said, “more like a lady.”
Most summers, Breaunna visited aunts, uncles and cousins in New York. But she didn?t go last summer.
Leola Gaston, Breaunna?s great-aunt, traveled to Baltimore from New York in three hours July 25, after a niece called to say there was a fire and Breaunna was dead, she said.
“This girl was screaming so much at the top of her lungs that I couldn?t make out what she was saying,” Gaston said. “I went into shock.”
Evans was indicted on murder charges in December in Baltimore County Circuit Court. Witnesses told police they first noticed the house was on fire, then saw him leave the house and set bags down on the lawn. Police found two knives in one of them, according to court records.
