by Kekla Magoon
Year Published: 2014
When sixteen-year-old
Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an
uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. –In the
aftermath of Tariq’s death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts
of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth.
–Tariq’s friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy,
and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own
words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.
