Ahmad Caver was 11 or 12, he’s not sure of his exact age, when his life was first touched by the murder of someone close to him.
His best friend’s mother, who he knew simply as Ms. Amanda, lived two doors down and was killed in a drive-by shooting.
“She was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said.
Caver grew up in the Atlanta suburb of Riverdale, a small city near Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport that had big crime and poverty problems when Caver was growing up.
He lost several friends as a teenager.