FAYETTEVILLE -- Shaniya Davis was laid to rest Sunday afternoon at a service that drew about 2,000 people at Manna Church in Fayetteville.
Her father, Bradley Lockhart, spoke at the service, asking mourners not to be angry, but to reach out to one another. Photos of Shaniya scrolled on a video screen.
Shaniya, 5, disappeared from her home in Fayetteville on Nov. 10; her body was found more than a week later in a patch of kudzu south of Sanford. She had been raped and strangled, according to police.
