On the first day of 2020, the life of 21-year-old Deandre Davis, a Black male, was tragically cut short in St. Louis, Missouri. His death was one of several homicides that marked a violent start to the new year in the city. The city witnessed five killings within the first 12 hours of New Year's Day, a grim tally that set a somber tone for the year to come. That year, St. Louis would go on to experience its highest homicide rate in 50 years, with 262 lives lost.
The violent trend of that
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