UPDATE: June 21, 2009
In our comment section, Sandra Anderson, mother of Sha'keylia, disputes reports by officials that the man -- Leslie Galloway -- accused of causing her daughter's death was a boyfriend.
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UPDATE: Feb. 1, 2009
Sha'keylia turned 18 years old Jan. 30, 2009. Recently her family, particularly her mother, promised to celebrate her daughter's birthday just as Sha'keylia had planned. The teenager was born in 1991.
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GULFPORT -- Family, friends and the South Mississippi community were shocked by the brutal death of 17-year-old Shakeylia Anderson on Dec. 5.Hunters discovered Anderson's nude body Dec. 6 in woods near Mississippi 15. Law officials said she had been repeatedly raped, run over by a vehicle several times, and her body set on fire. The officials suspected her former boyfriend, Leslie Galloway III of Moss Point.
Shakeylia was a senior at Harrison Central High, where she had been a member of the school's Reserve Office Training Corps (ROTC).
