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LAS VEGAS - Standing side by side in darkness, mourners held candles high for their shining light - Betty Jean Pinkney. They asked for justice.

"Oh God, we pray that her death never be in vain," a preacher said.

They sang and shared their sorrow.

"She touched so many people, so many lives," Betty Jean's father Joe Pinkney said.

He says his daughter had a reputation for taking time before school to help others.

"Betty would come to the special people, to the special students that they had, and she would come in the morning and give them all a hug," he said. "That's the kind of person that she was."

Gunfire at a house party Jan. 15 ended her life. Two men started fighting, and bullets started flying. Betty Jean was caught in the crossfire.

Another round of heavy enforcement for intersection safety takes place this week in southern Nevada.

A report released this week by the Alliance for Biking and Walking rated Las Vegas 32nd out of 51 major cities for safety.

Local jurisdictions have “safety events” planned throughout the valley this week, including the following: