The Hardest Loss

Bevlyn collapsed and suffered a heart attack. Two months and seven days after the shooting she died in her sleep.

In the days after Terrance's death, some of Landrin's childhood friends offered to kill Darren or members of his family. "Usually what happens is there is retaliation from the family so that [Darren's] parents can feel how we do," Landrin says. "In our community, in most urban environments, that is how it happens. I thought about it, but I didn't want my son's name to cause a bloodbath."

Darren would eventually be convicted, as an adult, of first-degree murder and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison, but the damage he caused went beyond ending Terrance's life.

"A lot of kids gave up after Terrance got killed," says Landrin. "They gave up sports and turned to the streets. They stopped feeling they could make it. They said, 'Terrance had all the tools and went to all the right schools and look what happened to him. How am I going to make it out?'"