In the autumn of 2008, a young African-American man named Rashod Payne, known to his loved ones as 'Shoddy,' passed away at the age of 22. His death on October 14, 2008, was not the result of a sudden act of violence, but the tragic culmination of a shooting that had occurred two years prior. In 2006, in the broad daylight of a Dorchester street, Rashod was shot on Geneva Avenue, an event that would forever alter the course of his life and leave his family with a grief that time could not erase.
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