A quiet sorrow settled over the city of Flint on a late November day in 2017. Lassina Djire, a 29-year-old man, found his life tragically cut short on Tuesday, the 28th of that month. The setting for this unforeseen act of violence was a Marathon gas station on West Court Street, a place of routine comings and goings that was irrevocably marred by bloodshed. In the sterile language of official reports, his death was attributed to gun violence, a stark term for a life suddenly and violently extin
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