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From Live5News: As families and communities continue to identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., there’s now news that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among the 67 people who were killed.
Kiah Duggins was an attorney with Civil Rights Corps. She grew up in Wichita and attended Wichita East High School.
In 2015, she represented the Miss Kansas Organization as Miss Butler County.
Duggins, 30, had earned her undergraduate degree from Wichita State University, then attended and graduated from Harvard Law School.
The report explains that Duggins, who lives in Washington, D.C., had come to Wichita to spend time with her family, as her mother had just undergone surgery.
She was on her way back home to D.C., seconds away from safety, when the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter flew into the path of the flight she was on, as it was coming in for landing.
RIP ❤️ Professor Kiah Duggins was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport. Professor Duggins was set to begin a new chapter as a professor at Howard University School of Law this fall. May her memory be a blessing. pic.twitter.com/MvgUYvgMrC
— Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD (@araujohistorian) January 31, 2025
Civil rights attorney, former Miss Kansas contestant among those killed in plane collision near DC https://t.co/LZqUBM0M5E
— Live5News (@Live5News) January 31, 2025
It is with profound sadness that the Howard University community and the Howard University School of Law have learned of the passing of Professor Kiah Duggins, who was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport. We ask for privacy and respect for…
— Ben Vinson III, PhD (@huprez18) January 31, 2025
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