Andre Hamlin was relaxing in the living room of his Chicago home when he noticed the news alert trickle across the screen of his cell phone.
Hamlin, 42, had grown up in the poor, crime-riddled South Side neighborhood of Englewood, Illinois. He, like so many other Englewood kids, had spent time in a gang. But he turned his life around as an adult, beginning community outreach and taking a job as an assistant coach at his Alma matter, Simeon Career Academy.
There, he met the younger brother of an old friend, a teenager with an explosive first step and killer crossover named Derrick Rose.