Saving lives means changing lives and a young man named ‘Asa’ says his is one of them.
“I grew up in a single parent home,” said Asa, “There was a lot of poverty. I knew that my mother couldn’t raise a man so I looked next best or coolest thing growing up, which was my cousins on the corners selling drugs, gunning people down, robbing people and that led me to follow in those footsteps.”
City, state and federal leaders joined the community on Monday in celebrating a drop in murders by a third and non-fatal shootings by a quarter in the last year alone…