By Anissa Durham Originally appeared in Word in Black Chancierra Coleman had a feeling her 21-year-old little sister would be killed by her ex-partner, a worry that became true in June of this year. “I told her several times if you’re gonna leave him alone, leave him alone because you’re playing with fire,” she says. Coleman’s sister Mi’Ckeye Montgomery had just broken up with her ex-partner when he kidnapped their then 16-month-old daughter and Montgomery near their daughter’s DeKalb County, Georgia, daycare. He then took them to the woods behind the center, while wearing an ankle monitor, and shot Montgomery
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