In the pre-dawn hours of Christmas Eve 2020, the life of 21-year-old Christopher Rea was tragically cut short in the Patch neighborhood of south St. Louis, Missouri. He was discovered inside his vehicle on South Broadway, which had mounted the sidewalk and come to a rest against a fence. He had been fatally shot, marking another grim statistic in a year that would become the deadliest on record for the city in terms of per capita homicides. Rea, a young father of three with aspirations of openin
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