On Sunday morning, Starr, Maverick and Lisa go to pay their respects to Ms. Starr considers talking to the police but wonders whether the police really want justice for Khalil. Uncle Carlos wants her to talk with the detectives assigned to the case, but Maverick opposes the idea. When she wakes up, she overhears her Uncle Carlos, a police officer, talking with her parents in the kitchen. That night, Starr wakes up from a nightmare about Natasha and Khalil, both dead from gun violence. King tells Maverick to watch his step and not make enemies. He also tells King to make sure not to hit Seven, who is Maverick’s son with King’s partner Iesha. King asks Maverick to hold on to some drugs for him, but Maverick says he won’t tolerate any illegal activities going on at his grocery store. Starr’s friend Kenya comes by the grocery store to see her, and as the two girls walk out on the street, they meet Kenya’s father, King, the leader of the King Lords. It’s a Saturday, so Starr goes with her father to work in their family’s grocery store, as if nothing happened. Maverick tells Starr not to reveal that she was a witness to the murder so she doesn’t receive any pressure from the police. Starr’s parents are concerned because she is the only person besides Officer 115 who saw the incident.

After discarding her bloody clothes and sleeping, Starr thinks about another childhood friend, Natasha, who was killed at age 10 in a drive-by shooting. The officer then shoots Khalil three times, killing him.Īn ambulance and a few more police vehicles arrive, and Starr’s parents, Maverick and Lisa, come to take her home. When Officer 115 steps away to his own vehicle, Khalil walks to the driver’s side door to check on Starr. He tells Khalil to keep his hands on the car.

The policeman, Officer 115, tells Khalil to get out of the car and pats him down several times in an attempt to find drugs or weapons. They run to Khalil’s car and drive away.Īs Khalil and Starr leave the party, they are pulled over by a police officer.

When shots ring out at the party, she and Khalil assume that the gun violence is yet another skirmish between the local gangs called the King Lords and the Garden Disciples. He’s wearing really expensive clothes and jewelry, which upsets Starr because she knows it means he’s become a drug dealer. Her evening brightens when her childhood friend Khalil comes over to talk to her. She doesn’t know anyone else at the event. When she goes to a spring break party in Garden Heights with her friend Kenya, she feels uncomfortable. Starr Carter lives in the predominantly black suburb of Garden Heights, but has attended Williamson, a predominantly white prep school, for six years.

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