In the late hours of a spring evening in St. Louis, Missouri, the life of Byron Blassingame was tragically cut short. On May 8, 2009, the 27-year-old Black male was the victim of a fatal shooting. The incident occurred as he and two friends were leaving a concert and their vehicle was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of 18th and Market streets. It was there that another vehicle pulled alongside theirs and unleashed a hail of gunfire in what has been described as an ambush-style att
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