In the spring of 2010, a young man's life was cut tragically short on the streets of New Orleans. June Gorden, an 18-year-old African American male, was fatally shot on the evening of Friday, April 2, 2010, just one day before he would have celebrated his nineteenth birthday. The incident that claimed his life unfolded in the Gentilly Woods neighborhood, a detail that paints a somber picture of a life extinguished in a familiar community.
The shooting occurred at approximately 11:00 p.m.
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