On the night of March 31, 1991, in the Roxbury section of Boston, a 24-year-old Black / African American man named Nathaniel Rivers was fatally shot at an after-hours party. The violence that erupted was the culmination of a bitter gang rivalry. Rivers, identified as the leader of the Intervale Street Posse, was caught in a hail of bullets intended as retaliation for a previous murder.
The seeds of the deadly encounter were sown just a week prior, on March 23, 1991, with the killing of To
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