On a late-September day in 2008, 18-year-old African-American male Pierre Young was found fatally wounded in a narrow alley in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood, his body marked by gunfire that left him beyond saving. News reports described a teenager discovered “fatally shot in alley” and a “bullet-riddled body found in alley,” underscoring how sudden and violent his final moments were as officers and paramedics converged on the scene. The location—an otherwise ordinary service lane behi
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