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‘Let this boy make it’ BUILD Highlighted in the Washington Post
From his hospital bed, the eighth-grader was already plotting how to kill the kid who had put him there.
It had been a month since Latee Smith’s 15th birthday and a week since a bullet blew a hole through his right hip, tearing into muscle and bone and leaving him bleeding on a sidewalk, terrified he was about to become another dead teenager on another West Side street corner.