In the bitter cold of a late December evening in Kansas City, Missouri, the life of 19-year-old Abdulbasid Y. Yassin was irrevocably altered. On December 28, 2020, shortly after 8 p.m., the sound of gunfire shattered the night near the intersection of East 8th Street and Prospect Avenue. When Kansas City Police Department officers arrived at the scene, they discovered Yassin unresponsive on the ground, a victim of the city's relentless tide of violence.
Paramedics rushed the young man to
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