ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A Gwinnett County family is bringing attention to domestic violence after their young loved one was gunned down in a Duluth parking lot on Friday.

“Elajia is so many beautiful things that you can say about her,” said Rhoda Alexander, Elajia’s aunt. “Unfortunately, the person that took her life didn’t see that. He didn’t see the beauty in her. He didn’t see the love that her family surrounded her with. If he did, he was jealous of that.”

“Elajia has always resonated light, and the light that she was resonating, it came from her heart,” said Alfred Uzomah, Elajia’s stepfather.

21-year-old Elajia Whitley was rising in life, her family said.

Whitley was shot to death outside a shopping center in Duluth on Friday afternoon. (WANF)

“She was always laugh

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