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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