So a young guy tries to make it in life. Get a job, not live on the streets and sell drugs. Gets a "good" job working at McD's (read Freakonomics, it is a better job than selling drugs)
and gets killed.
Would he have made it? Do not know. But he tried. And that is the
painful part of this. He was trying.
Only to be gunned down by a psychopath trying to prove to his momma how big his dick is.

Such a shame. Such a waste.