Alicia Rice knew it wouldn't end well.

There had been talk all week, even longer, in their Fairfield home about her 14-year-old daughter, Kiera'Onna "Keke" Rice, meeting rivals at a Birmingham park Friday afternoon to settle a score that had been brewing since sixth grade.

The feud ended about 6:15 p.m. Friday when Keke took a fatal shot to the heart. "I had told her it wasn't worth it,'' the grieving mother said Sunday evening in an interview with AL.com. "I'm going to miss talking to her. That's who I talked to."

Birmingham police Monday charged Antonio King, 17, and Jason Wade, 19, in Keke's death.

The shooting happened in Birmingham's Washington Park. The fight had been planned for weeks, arranged and widely discussed on Facebook. "It was supposed to be a group fight,'' said 14-year-old Arreonia Westry, a close friend of Keke's who was there to watch.

Keke, described by her friends as the peacemaker in their tight-knight group, had gone back and forth about going through with the fight. At times she wanted to go through with it, and at other times she was afraid.

"We told her she didn't have to come if she didn't want to,'' said Keke's cousin, 15-year-old Destiny Senior. "But they had said if she didn't come out there, they were coming to her house."

"I knew something was going to happen,'' Destiny said. "I got butterflies before. I just knew."

Keke, a Fairfield high school freshman, rode the bus home. An older boy then came and picked her up to take her to the fight. Her boyfriend of two years, Javonte Hurst, had told her all week she wasn't going.

When he called her Friday afternoon, she was on the way to the fight. "She felt peer pressure,'' he said.

When Rice got a phone call at work from her 4-year-old at 4:50 p.m. saying Keke wasn't home, she knew then her oldest daughter had decided to not back down.

Rice, 33, called Keke on her cell phone. She asked where she was, but in her heart she already knew. "She was nowhere she belonged,'' Rice said today in an interview with AL.com. "She was at Washington Park. I knew she was there. She didn't have to tell me."

Concerned, Rice told Keke to go home, and Keke said she would. "When we hung up, she texted me and said, 'Mama, I'm sorry. But I've got to fight this girl and get it over with,''' Rice said. "I said, 'Keke, I'm going to beat your (expletive) when I get home. If they don't kill you before I get there,' I'm going to beat your (expletive.) I knew. I had a feeling my baby wasn't coming home."

"I just went to praying real hard,'' Rice said. "I'd never prayed that hard a day in my life. I said, 'My baby ain't coming home.'''

Friends said it wasn't long after the fight started that it spiraled out of control. "It didn't go as planned,'' Destiny said. First someone pulled out, and deployed, a Taser stun gun. Next there was gunfire. And then there was chaos.

Keke was one of three people wounded. The identities of the others haven't been released, but they are expected to survive. "Everybody took off running,'' Arreonia said. "I turned around because I knew Keke was behind me, and she was on the ground."

Friends said after being shot, Keke was run over by a car in the panic that followed the shooting. "She was reaching for her cousin, and she just kept saying, 'my legs, my legs.'''

Someone scooped up Keke and threw her over his shoulder. They put her into a car and rushed her to Princeton Baptist Medical Center. Arreonia and Javonte, who had not yet made it to the park, both called Rice to tell her about the shooting. She rushed to the hospital, but never got to see Keke again. "They wouldn't let me go back there,'' she said.

Police took two male suspects into custody, ages 17 and 19. They remain jailed, but have not yet been formally charged. "Fights on the street are not fair and are extremely unpredictable," said Birmingham police spokesman Lt. Sean Edwards, in an earlier interview. "You're agreeing to accepting the harm that may take place to you and others. This was an absolutely senseless killing."

Friends said the running feud wasn't over anything specific. A group of girls, who now attend Parker High School, had been picking on Keke since sixth grade. "It was over her beauty,'' Rice said.

No one expected it to end like this. There's been talk of retaliation, but Keke's friends and family say they hope it doesn't come to that. "I lost my cousin over a fight,'' Destiny said. "It's definitely a wake-up call."

Keke's mom said she is pleading with the young people to stay away from social media. "They need to stop entertaining this stuff. Facebook. It just needs to go away. They don't need it."

Dozens of friends and family members have surrounded Rice all weekend. "I'm fine when they're here,'' she said, "but when everyone's gone, I cry."

They plan to hold a vigil at Railroad Park next Sunday night. Keke's funeral will be Saturday, and they have set up an online fund to help pay for that funeral. For now, they're left trying to remember better times. Keke, they said, was the rock of their group of friends. They read aloud text messages from the past where Keke gave them life advice that sounded like it was coming from someone much older than 14.

"All of her friends came to her for advice,'' Rice said. "She was the mama of the group."

Keke was in the ROTC program at Fairfield High Preparatory School, but wasn't necessarily planning on a military future. She had talked about becoming a lawyer, but also was fascinated with fashion and cosmetology. She got a new hairstyle every week and, like most teen girls, was obsessed with shoes. They said she always had a smile on her face.

"She liked to sleep, eat, talk on the phone and take pictures of herself,'' Rice said. "She stayed in front of the mirror."

"She was the calmest of all of us,'' her cousin said. "She was the peacemaker."

"She was sweet and kind-hearted,'' said her friend Arreonia.

All agreed that Keke had said many times she was going to be a star one day. "A twinkling star" her boyfriend said with a smile.

"She is now,'' her mom said. "We didn't think it would be this way."