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Tyree Colion, a rapper and ex-gang member, risks his life setting up No Shoot Zones in communities with record murders. Late on a Sunday evening in July 2017, rapper and former gang member Tyree Colion was stabbed in the neck in East Baltimore. Bleeding, the 42-year old pressed a t-shirt into his wound with one hand and launched a Facebook Live broadcast with the other. He turned the camera on himself. "I'm losing too much blood," he said, gasping for air. In the background, his female companion could be heard screaming for help, pleading with him to "hold on". "Yo if I die, keep pushing them zones," he said, before falling onto the pavement and losing consciousness. Several thousand Facebook subscribers who were tuned in knew the "zones" Colion was talking about. But for Tracy Cox,...