In the summer of 2023, a promising young life was abruptly cut short on the streets of Buffalo, New York. Eighteen-year-old Columbus E. Brooks Jr., a Black male known affectionately as 'Lumbo,' was fatally shot on the evening of July 5th. The incident occurred near Woodlawn Avenue and Dupont Street, a place where he was reportedly playing basketball. Friends and family remember him as a joyful individual with aspirations of becoming a parole officer or a firefighter, a young man with a bright fu
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