Jalen JaJa Stogner, a 17-year-old African American male, tragically lost his life on August 31, 2012, in Chicago, IL. Jalen was shot and killed in front of his mother and two younger brothers outside a laundromat in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. The incident occurred while Jalen was helping his mother unload laundry from their car. As he walked out of the laundromat, a brief exchange with another young man, Alan Padilla, led to the fatal shooting. Padilla, also 17 years old, pulled out a g
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