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Jacobs’s father found his 20-year-old son on July 18, 1997, slumped over on the couch. At first he thought Jacobs was asleep but within hours he would learn his son had been shot three times in the back of the head. Jacobs sold marijuana. He started a few months before he was killed, to pay his parents back for lawyers’ fees they had loaned him after a drunken driving ticket he got when he was 19.