num_pages: 336
description: When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter Jack Franklin is white.In the aftermath of Tariq's death everyone has something to say but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day new twists further obscure the truth.Tariq's friends family and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own words they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.
language: None
title: How It Went Down
publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)