HOPKINTON, Mass. – Mikayla Miller and her mother Calvina Strothers were "two peas in a pod." She loved to make her mom tea every night and was often her mom's "dinner date," as the two enjoyed going out to eat. They traveled together regularly, with quick trips from their home in Massachusetts to Maine or New Hampshire and had plans to return to Trinidad soon. "Mikayla was only 16-years-old. She was my bright and shining star in this crazy world," Strothers said at a rally Thursday for her daughter, less than a month since her death. On the morning of April 18, Mikayla, a Black teenager, was found dead in a wooded area by a jogger in what the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office initially said was not considered a suspicious death. It remained an “open and active” investigation, the office said at the time.