Randolph Evans was a 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn, NY who was shot and killed by NYPD officer Robert Torsney on November 25, 1976. Evans was a ninth-grader at Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn at the time of the shooting. On Thanksgiving Day 1976, responding to a report of a man with a gun in the Cypress Hills housing projects, Officer Torsney encountered a group of youths. After a brief conversation, Torsney shot one of them, Evans, point-blank in the head for no reason.

Yesterday has gone, with it mistakes and cares.

We cannot undo or erase a single word.

But today, we can fight the battles of the just ones.

So let us therefore live but one day at a time.

Because tomorrow may never be ours.