In the pre-dawn hours of February 5, 2010, the city of New Orleans was stirring with anticipation for the Saints' historic Super Bowl appearance. But in the Hollygrove neighborhood, a tragedy unfolded that would cut a young life short. Fifteen-year-old Charles Lampton Sawyer, a promising male student-athlete at Sophie B. Wright charter middle school, was found lying in the middle of Palm Street near General Ogden Street. He had been fatally shot.
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