Donald Crump

Donald J. Crump, a 31-year-old Black male, was at home in Riverside on the evening of December 8, 1988, settling in to watch television with his mother when a single shot shattered the ordinary quiet. A. 22-caliber round tore through the window and struck him in the jaw, an attack that felt less like a robbery or a quarrel and more like a message from the dark—someone out there aiming into living rooms.

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