Byron K Phillips

On a summer evening in North Minneapolis, 11-year-old Byron K. Phillips, a young African American boy, was playing with his cousin and a friend on the front porch of a neighbor's house. It was June 2, 1996, and a light rain shower had just passed. As the boys were talking and laughing, their lives were irrevocably altered by a single, tragic event that stemmed from a violent feud between two local gangs.

The conflict had been escalating for about a year between the "Shorties Taking Over" ...

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