“Don’t go past the streetlights.”
That was the warning that Montell Cozart often heard. But being a kid, he tested boundaries.
He was about 7 years old, hanging out with some kids a few years older outside their Kansas City apartment complex. They saw a car slowly heading their direction, its lights off for a reason.
When the bullets started flying, they luckily were aimed the other direction, but the car was just a few yards away. Cozart reacted with what he did best — he ran.
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