Mitchell C. “Putha” Ricard IV was a 20-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Louisiana, who died on September 24, 2010. The date sits there on the page like a door that slammed shut too soon, marking the moment a young life ended before it had the chance to fully unfold. He was male, and he was only twenty, an age when so much is still supposed to be ahead—plans still forming, hopes still being spoken out loud, and a future that hasn’t yet had time to harden into something certain.
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