Her family disputed the police account of her death, saying Beaty would know better than threaten police. “She’s very smart, very intelligent. I don’t believe she was brandishing a weapon,” her sister, Kendra Beaty, told the Virginian-Pilot. “Her automatic reaction would have been to drop and say, ‘It’s not real.’ She would not have gone to jail over a toy gun.” Beaty’s family said she was an aspiring rapper who went by “Lbeezygotti.”
