Jordan Boyd, a 20-year-old Black man from St. Louis, Missouri, was killed on December 4, 2017, in a shooting that left his family and neighborhood with a sudden, unfinished kind of silence.
Accounts of the night described a setup that turned deadly: Boyd was drawn into an encounter framed around a drug deal, but it was a trap—robbers were waiting, and what began as a lure ended in gunfire. The shooting proved fatal, adding Boyd’s name to the city’s long ledger of lives lost to viol
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