Alexander Smith, 26, male, was shot and killed in Boston on September 29, 2002. City records show his death at age twenty-six on that date, confirming the loss felt in his community and by his young family. Community memorials later recorded that he was “lost to gun violence,” a stark epitaph that compresses a life into a single violent moment.
According to contemporaneous reporting from the Associated Press, Smith was a father of two who became embroiled in a heated argument inside
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