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A 3-year-old is shot to death, and D.C. reels again: 'Everyone loved her'

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She loved french fries, and pizza with "everything on it." Ty'ah Settles covered the walls of her family's apartment in Southeast Washington with colorful doodles. She was looking forward to starting day care in August.

On Friday night, D.C. police said, Ty'ah was riding in an SUV that went through a gun battle near her home. The cheerful, chatty 3-year-old, the daughter her mother had always wanted and called her "twin," was killed by a stray bullet.

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