| «The day he died was Sunday. |
| We were sitting around the television,
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| and the program was interrupted. |
| The announcer…
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| Said that… he had been shot
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| We looked at each other, there was not much to say, we had been unable to save
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| him. |
| We felt guilty about that. |
| And we were a bit apprehensive too,
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| because we knew that there was an eerie quiet in the community which might
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| explode at any moment
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| But that afternoon, as the Sun went down, as we walked the streets and the
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| lights came on. |
| Everybody looked…
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| We shook hands, we talked, and we remembered. |
| But we knew then that somebody
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| greatly important to all of us was gone
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| And he wouldn’t be back again"
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| «You know, the news of his death, just, actually, split me open right away
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| I thought that, actually, that was a declaration of war. |
| We gotta pay him back,
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| you know.»
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| «I felt that people seemed edgy that day. |
| By the time we got there, I think,
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| half of the hall was filled. |
| But we did get seats. |
| Then, while everybody’s
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| eyes were fixed on the two men in the middle, the shotgun blast went off.
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| At that time there was utter chaos. |
| People were screaming and hitting the
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| floor. |
| You could hear all the chairs coming down. |
| But I saw a brother run up
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| the stage, so I thought, 'Oh, I’ll follow him' and see if I can get to Billy.'» |