Rachel Shannon

She was described as energetic, full of life.

She had a bigger than life personality with an adventurous spirit.

She loved looking pretty, always borrowing her aunt's makeup to look her best.

She especially loved shoes and fashion.

She was also very organized, always offering to even clean her aunt's home because she really just enjoyed the process of cleaning and organizing.

She loved dancing and music and taking dance classes.

She also took classes for martial arts and archery, so she was just overall a very active young woman with a lot of interests.

She was also described as being a sweet girl who loved making those around her feel comfortable and loved.

She complimented those around her frequently and those who had a chance to know her all loved her.

When she was little, she originally wanted to be a nurse to help people when she grew up, but then she changed her ambitions and she decided that she wanted to be a police officer.

She wanted to grow up and help fight injustices and racism when she graduated high school.

In 2005, Mu Jae and her mother, as well as her three sisters, they all moved to the United States from her home country of Sierra Leone as refugees to flee the country that had just gotten through a civil war.

The war had been done in 2002.

but the country was still suffering the extreme consequences of this civil war.

It wasn't a safe place to live anymore, so that's why Mu Jae's family and so many other families like hers left the country for a better, safer place to live.

When Mu Jae was only three years old, they ended up in a refugee camp.

There, they wore used clothes and were given food rations by the United Nations, but soon after, the UN relocated them to Michigan.

Mujay's family described that they were happy to get away from their home country and make a new life in the U.S.

They saw it as a second chance at life.

They went from walking miles and miles and fighting for their survival every day to living a more comfortable life free of fear.