Ricky “Poppa” Hill, a 34-year-old African American man, died in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 10, 2020. He had been born December 27, 1985, and by that Thursday night his name would be carried from phone to phone as people tried to make sense of how quickly an ordinary evening could turn into a fatal one.
According to the New Orleans Police Department, the call came in as an aggravated battery by shooting in the 1600 block of Shirley Drive. Officers arrived to find Hill sufferi
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