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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.  

By Ethan Hale · Age 17
Meet the Reporters

More than 100 jokesters

Kaiden Vague

Sixteenth birthday. Golden birthday. Last birthday.

Bryan Portales Escalante

Phone, wallet, shoes and, life — gone

Natwan Kian Holyfield

Supposed to go to homecoming, prom

Robert Carranza

He liked to post song lyrics

Ryan J. Dillon

A playful boy, stopped by bullets

Daron Johnson

He went to celebrate another’s life

Jonathan David Freeman Jr.

Debated anything, from music to Deflategate

Deandre Moon

Overnight tragedy for a basketball fan

Edgar Alan Espino

Jokester loved to make people laugh

Jayvone J. Shackelford-Bishop

Friends together like Lilo & Stitch

Eddie Daiquan Grant

A devoted boyfriend and rap fan

Rashiya Melton

Joins brother, leaves behind her twin

Eric Xavier Degori

His jokes could make anyone laugh

Steven Alexander Jr.

He missed his first Father’s Day

Terale Claridy-Vaught

‘Solid’ friend barely gets to adulthood

Amauri Green

Died while fixing a flat tire

Darion Gordon

Sixteen years erased by one bullet

Will Earl Davis Jr.

The rising senior was always smiling

Manuel Lopez Jr.

High school senior set to graduate

Matthew James Jurado

Challenging student had a compassionate heart