In the summer of 2007, a wave of violence was sweeping through Philadelphia, and it was in this climate of fear and uncertainty that Jerome Boyer, a 35-year-old African-American man, lost his life. On the 4th of August, in a neighborhood already plagued by high crime rates, an altercation erupted that ended in gunfire. When the chaos subsided, Jerome Boyer had been fatally shot.
The death of Jerome Boyer became another grim statistic in a city grappling with a rising homicide rate. The Ph
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