In the winter of 2019, the life of a young and aspiring musician was tragically cut short in Saginaw, Michigan. Richard Lewis Townsend Jr., a 26-year-old African American man, was killed on December 9, 2019. Known to his family as 'Tudda' and to his friends and fans as 'State,' Richard was born on August 30, 1993, in Union Springs, Alabama. He was a student in the Buena Vista Public Schools before embarking on a career in the music industry, where he was in the process of working on his second a
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