Jasmine McKinney was 17, a Black female from St. Louis, Missouri, still at the age where a night ride in a car could feel like a small slice of freedom—music, chatter, the glow of streetlights sliding across the windows—until everything shattered in an instant. Late on November 20, 2007, the vehicle she was riding in moved through the intersection of Potomac Street and Oregon Avenue, an ordinary corner of the city that suddenly became the setting for something senseless. Police said a man st
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