On a warm evening in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 29, 2002, 10-year-old Trina Ann Persad, a Black / African American female, was walking near a crowded playground in the Roxbury neighborhood. Tragically, her life was cut short when she was struck by a shotgun blast fired from a passing car. The shooting was the result of an apparent gang-related attack where Trina was an innocent bystander. The incident took place at the edge of a park ironically named for another young victim of gun violence,
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