RICHMOND — On a cold day last January, 17-year-old Tristan Bailey walked into history class to find a woman he didn’t know sitting in his friend’s usual seat.
The woman, a Richmond Public Schools instructional specialist named Tess Short, had dressed like a teen: in jeans, a hoodie and pink Converse. She was there, the teacher explained, because Bailey’s childhood friend Jaden Carter had been shot to death the day before behind the school baseball fields.
