In the early hours of a Wednesday morning in March 2017, the life of 24-year-old Montell Telly Pridgett was cut short on Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Pridgett, a male, was a promising boxer who trained at Umar Boxing, where a sign poignantly reads 'Put the guns down... Put the gloves up.' He was remembered by his coach of ten years, Marvin McDowell, as a kid who was on the right path, working and training to make a name for himself in the boxing world.
The incident that led
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