Darrah Ashar Host
Age 18
Minneapolis, Minnesota
She waited. He never came home.
He was a joker, always the one to lighten the mood with a quip to make his friends laugh. He cared for the people around him to a fault and often got in trouble for talking too much in school.
He went to see a concert and was planning to see his girlfriend afterward. As he exited the venue, she waited for him to come home.
Darrah Ashar Host wouldn’t make it. He was shot and killed outside the concert venue near the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 3, 2018, a month after his 18th birthday.