On the morning of June 2, 2017, a sense of normalcy was shattered in a Chester, Pennsylvania neighborhood. Zion Abdullah, a 16-year-old Black male, was on his way to Chester High School, where he was a sophomore and a football player. It was around 7:30 a.m. when an altercation broke out near the intersection of 11th and Kerlin streets. In the moments that followed, gunfire erupted, and Zion was struck.
Wounded, he staggered away from the scene, making his way to the grounds of the vacant
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