In the Stairwell
In the Stairwell
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This is the story of a father’s grief at losing his son to a policeman’s bullet. It happened two decades before Ferguson or Baltimore, and long before smartphone videos. Nicholas Heyward Sr. came to StoryCorps to remember his son, Nicholas Jr., who was 13 when he died.