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In one of the last homicides of 2020, 32-year-old Isaac Mozeke was shot by an unknown gunman while taking an evening walk to a convenience store.
This seemingly random act of violence occurred on a corner in one of the most violent neighborhoods of Dallas — one that has been a pervasive problem for decades in a city that is struggling to find answers to a recent uptick in violent crime.
Nicole Hill holds several photos of deceased brothers Isaac (second from left) and Ishmael Mozeke (left) and their deceased mother Melody Bell, who also went by the name Afiah Bey (center) at her cousin’s apartment in Dallas. Hill was a longtime family friend of the Mozeke brothers, both of whom died by gun violence two decades apart. Bey died mere weeks after Isaac was shot and killed in December 2020.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)