On October 5, 2019, a 19-year-old African American male named Gerald Keith Jackson Jr. was fatally shot in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Known affectionately as 'Lil-G' to his friends and family, the young man had recently graduated from McCluer South-Berkeley High School and was employed as a filler at D & W Manufacturing. He held aspirations of a career in law enforcement and had reportedly been accepted into the St. Louis City Police Academy, a dream cut short by the violence that claimed
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