On February 11, 2008, 18-year-old Alonzo Dejesus Castro was shot and killed in San Diego, California. The incident occurred in a neighborhood struggling with gang-related violence, a trend that was prevalent in the region at the time. Castro’s death was part of a broader surge in homicides in 2008, with San Diego experiencing elevated rates of violent crime that year. As a young man of Hispanic descent, Castro’s homicide echoed the troubling statistics showing that Hispanic males were dispro
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