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Merchant and Walker in "My Name is Myeisha"
“My Name is Myeisha” screens at upcoming festival
Based on Rickerby Hinds’ stage play “Dreamscape,” Gus Krueger’s film “My Name is Myeisha” is being released twenty years after its subject was murdered.
Tyisha Miller was shot to death on December 28, 1998, after police fired 23 shots (12 hit Miller, including four to the head) at the young woman, who was asleep in a car with the engine running, music blasting, in Riverside, California.
After their white Nissan Sentra ended up with a flat tire after midnight, Miller, her cousin and their girlfriend pulled into a gas station in the Inland Empire, “sixty miles east of the City of Angels,” rhymes the character Myeisha, portrayed by actress Rhaechyl Walker.
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