In the winter of 2014, a gathering to mourn a lost friend turned into the scene of a second tragedy, leaving a Philadelphia family heartbroken and a community searching for answers. On the evening of January 5th, 24-year-old Basir Amaker, a Black male, was shot and killed in a triple shooting on the 6200 block of Media Street. Amaker and his friend, Karon Bailey, also 24, had attended a memorial for a childhood friend who had been murdered the previous night. As they sat in a car with a third fr
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