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On Friday, the friends and family of 9-year-old Amiyah Kayla Dunston gathered together to mourn her death after she was mauled by a pit bull.

Amiyah had been playing with a friend that she was visiting when a neighbor’s pit bull attacked her.

At the services, friends and family wore pink in her memory, since Amiyah was often wearing her favorite color.

The family has since started a crowdfunding campaign to raise $30,000 for funeral expenses and grief counseling. “Amiyah was a beautiful, smart, talented child who had a heart of gold,” the girl’s godmother, Nicole Robinson, wrote on the GoFundMe page Friday. “She had an impact on all who met her. She brought out the best in us.”

Source: The Grio