Desmond Johnson was 27 years old, a Black man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and on the night of October 19, 2016, his life was taken by gunfire. What should have been an ordinary Wednesday ended instead with sirens, stunned silence, and the kind of grief that arrives before anyone can even understand what just happened.
That evening, shots rang out along Alaska Street, near the area around LSU. In the chaos and suddenness that follows a burst of violence, Johnson was struck and left mortal
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