On a warm summer evening in Denver, Colorado, the lively sounds of a jazz festival in City Park were tragically silenced by gunfire. It was June 24, 2012, and Police Officer Celena Charise Hollis, a 32-year-old African-American single mother, was working off-duty at the event. Shortly after 8:00 p.m., a fight broke out near the pavilion by City Park Lake. As Officer Hollis intervened to de-escalate the situation, she was struck in the head by a bullet. She was rushed to Denver Health Medical Cen
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