Kodie Brown plays at the local playground, near RFK Stadium. Kodie's mother was fatally shot by her father while trying to escape onto a Metro bus. Kodie, who was grazed by a bullet in the attack, needs several operations to remove more facial scar tissue. “No baby should have to go through what she has gone through,” said Deborah Alessi, who has helped set up a foundation that pays for victims of domestic violence to have plastic surgery. (Amanda Voisard, for The Washington Post )