On a cold January night in 2011, a young Black/African American man named Michael DeAngelo Layne, aged 19, was walking with friends in his Temple Hills, Maryland neighborhood. Their evening of playing video games took a tragic turn when they were confronted in what police described as an attempted armed robbery on Norcross Street on January 4th. During the encounter, a bullet grazed Michael's chest, a seemingly non-fatal wound that tragically induced a fatal heart attack, ending the teenager's l
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