Rondae Hollis-Jefferson was running as fast as he could and unsurprising to anyone reading this now, he was out in front of the rest of his friends.
He was 12 and doing what kids do, turning anything into a game. This one turned into a race, the first person to reach a house in his neighbourhood in Chester, Pennsylvania, would win. Something like that, he explains. You never know when a life lesson will present itself, good or bad. Hollis-Jefferson was unaware of it, this pillar of darkness looming over an otherwise sunny day.
“I came running around the corner,” he says.