In the early morning hours of a Sunday in March 2017, a discovery was made in the 5300 block of State Street in East St. Louis that would forever alter the lives of two families. Police received a call about a vehicle that was stopped in the roadway. Inside, they found the bodies of 18-year-old Nathaniel Shuryn and 20-year-old Maurice L. Cotton. Both young men had been shot and were pronounced deceased at the scene.
The initial investigation revealed that two other individuals, a 17-year-
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