On a cold December evening in 2002, the life of 18-year-old Nabil Essaid was tragically cut short in a burst of violence outside a movie theater on Tremont Street in Boston. The fatal encounter on December 14th was not a random act but the culmination of a dispute that had begun two weeks prior. An altercation over stolen marijuana at Downtown Crossing had set the stage for a deadly confrontation, pitting Essaid and his friends against another group of young men.
The simmering tensions er
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