TIM: I drove my mom through the park to the spot
where Andre lost his life, because I
had not been there yet.
I don't think Mom had been there, either.
And we're still on the same street
basically as my grandmother's house, Natural Bridge.
So you can see Grandma's house right from here.
MISS ROBBIE: Uh-huh.
Natural Bridge is the main street that goes from one
end of the city to the next.
Everything happens on Natural Bridge.
All the crime, all the fast racing.
This is it. TIM: Yeah, that's it.
MISS ROBBIE: They say he came out to use the phone.
So they had to shoot him right here on this porch.
TIM: We've lost a lot of family members here on this street.
Andre, as of late.
And then before Andre, my father.
And in between that was Linda's son,
Monique's brother, Aaron, who was like my brother.
And it's all on this one street.
A few blocks from each other.
[INAUDIBLE] Grandma house.
Yeah.
That's the sad thing about it.
TIM: Since Andre's passing, I haven't gone
through this part of the city.
And really, I've been avoiding it.
I mean, it's like all up and down the street.
TIM: Yeah.
MISS ROBBIE: We must stop killing.
But these-- it ain't-- it's just signs.
Oh, OK, I'm ready to go.
I'm getting sick to my stomach just seeing this place.
We get back in the car, I take her two lights down
the street-- just two lights-- to the spot
where my dad got killed.
MISS ROBBIE: Somebody walked up right beside him
and put the gun right to his head like that
and killed him in the car.
This is the first time I've been here since your dad got killed.
I ain't never even came back here.
My mom and dad were crazy in love with each other.
They were supposed to get married.
She was only two months pregnant with me when my dad got killed.
So when I drive past the spot, I wonder how would my life have
been different if my father hadn't stopped
to get a sandwich that day.
Some old guys told me that the person that killed my dad
was actually sitting inside the car with my dad.
He might have, because he was right there.
I looked behind his ear, because when
they told where he was shot at.
You went and identified his body, too, [INAUDIBLE]?
Uh-huh.
And Aaron's body, too.
I went with them [INAUDIBLE].
Aaron got killed a few blocks up the street.
MISS ROBBIE: Yep.
OK, love, all these memories.
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TIM: It hasn't been good for our family,
far as the men are concerned.
I mean, you look at me and Charles,
and now TJ, we all just left.
MISS ROBBIE: I'm kind of glad you gone.
You know, for your own safety.
TIM: I just wish y'all would come and live
with me and Charles out there.
We go up about three more blocks,
and that's where my nephew Aaron lost his life.
Yeah, I think they was right in here somewhere.
TIM: Yeah.
It was like my second or first year in prison, you know.
I got a message when I got back to my cell,
and they say to call home.
I'd been out playing basketball, and I got back
and they told me to call home.
And I got on the pay phone, called Mom, and, um--
And then that's when you called me saying Aaron.
I thought you was gonna tell me Aaron got locked up.
And she said, no, he's dead.
And I never expected that, you know?
I didn't.
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I mean, that was like my brother.
You know, he was my cousin, but really he was my brother.
That was, like, one of the hardest moments for me being
in prison, because I was away.
And I wondered, like, if I had been
there-- I felt guilty for being in jail and not being there
You told me he was dead.
He got killed, him and his friend.
That crushed me.
Killed both of them together right here.
The young men today, they're just killing each other.
My concern is, are we gonna have another generation?
Because these kids are killing each other before they
have kids.
Andre, my grandson, he was the last Montgomery.
TIM: I wish you would reconsider coming
out to California with me.
Or if you don't like California, pick a city and we--
I'll go open a restaurant there, you know?
I just wish we could all be together.
There's something inside me feel like I have to take the wheel
to talk my mom into maybe moving out
to California, to guide everybody
out of this situation.
I'm not gonna say no.
I will consider it.
But I could come visit.
I love St. Louis, even though all this stuff is happening.
I know I can't do nothing about it.
Just pray for strength.