Tyrell Johnson

Tyrell Johnson was a 30-year-old Black/African American man from Staten Island, New York, whose life ended on July 30, 2014. In the simplest facts, it is a date and a name and a place—Staten Island, summer, a day that began like any other and somehow became the day his family’s world split into “before” and “after.” When someone dies young, it doesn’t just take a person; it takes all the ordinary tomorrows that were supposed to follow—birthdays, phone calls, quick laughs, small a ...

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