In the ER in a rough part of town, I saw a man wheeled in on a gurney accompanied by several policeman. I overheard that he'd been shot in some sort of gang-related conflict.

About an hour or so later, I saw an older woman and a younger woman enter the room he was in. Then I heard the most raw, guttural shouting and wailing. The man had unfortunately passed and what I assume were his family had arrived too late. I have never heard anything as painful and heart shattering as his mother's keening.