Younger sister remembers Ma'Khia Bryant: 'She wanted to grow up and be great'

Ja'Niah Bryant remembers her older sister, Ma'Khia Bryant, who was fatally shot by a Columbus, Ohio, police officer last month.

Ja'Niah Bryant lost her best friend on April 20 when her older sister was fatally shot by a police officer outside their foster home in Columbus, Ohio. In an exclusive TV interview with ABC News' Eva Pilgrim for "Good Morning America," Ja'Niah described 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant as her "other half." "We did everything together," Ja'Niah, 15, said. The shooting of the Black teenage girl by a white police officer, which occurred about an hour before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second- and third-degree murder in the May 2020 death of George Floyd, sparked protests in the neighborhood and left her family calling for a federal investigation. A little over a week after Ma'Khia's death, city leaders said they requested a Department of Justice investigation following a series of police killings of Black people in Columbus.