The phones started ringing early in Harlem on the morning of September 11, 2011. The calls quickly spread to the rest of the boroughs and followed the same pattern of emotions: shock and disbelief, anger and frustration.

"One of the parents called me up," said Ed Grezinsky, the girls' basketball coach at Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers in New York City. "They asked, 'Is it true?'"

"I got a call at 5:30 in the morning," said Raichelle Thompson-Pressley, a Harlem resident. "I was sleeping. Somebody told me that a shooting had occurred. I didn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it."

"At around 4:40, 5-ish in the morning, I started getting calls," said Reverend Vernon Williams, a Harlem community activist. "Easily, over 50 calls. I made one call just to confirm. Then, I started making calls to people I work with, started getting people on the ground over there."

"Whatever happened, they ain't going far," Will Rampersant, an AAU basketball coach, thought when he received the call. "Everybody knows Chicken. She lived in the two biggest projects in the doggone city. I had girlfriends that knew her, and they called me right away, 'Is that the girl?' and they knew somebody that knew her. That's how known the kid is."

Taylonn Murphy will wait for a phone call he will never receive because of what caused the flurry of phone activity. "I still wait for my phone to ring and her to say 'Pops, come pick me up from the gym,'" Taylonn said. A family mourns, a basketball team is struggling to regroup, and a community is struggling to understand a senseless death because of what caused all the phone activity on that already cursed day...