On a late September evening in 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana, a young Black man named Mitchell C. "Putha" Ricard IV, aged 20, was fatally wounded by gunfire. His life was cut short on Friday, September 24, 2010, a fact that would be solemnly recorded in his obituary published in The Times-Picayune the following week.
The circumstances of that night suggest a frantic effort to save him. After being shot, Ricard was driven by friends to a gas station in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orle
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