pretty tall for incoming high school freshman. Quintin was African American, always had a fresh buzz cut and had a very distinguishable birthmark on his right forearm. Over the course of their time in middle school they had lost 6 classmates, mostly to gang violence. The numbers only got worse when you looked at the high school. Quintin and Malik were worried about becoming targets of gangs. As they began high school they tried to keep their heads down and just mind there own business. One day about a week into their freshman year as Malik and Quintin we're walking home from the basketball courts at around eight o'clock they found themselves in the mist of a shot out between rival gangs. They weren't initially fazed by this because this wasn't
