Troy Trevante Byrd

Death by Force

In the spring of 2020, the life of a promising young musician was cut short on the streets of South Minneapolis. Troy Trevante Byrd, a 23-year-old Black male, was fatally shot on the evening of April 9, 2020. The incident took place in the Ventura Village neighborhood, a community familiar to Byrd as it was where he had spent his formative years. He was sitting in a vehicle parked outside his childhood home on the 2200 block of 13th Avenue South when the tranquility of the evening was shattered ...Read More

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