One day, You said, he was picking up a friend in a high school parking lot when they got into a fight with Latino gang members.

Afterward, “I went to go find a weapon. … I wanted that payback.” He didn’t find the people from the fight, but he found someone else and opened fire.

“It was just a guy who looked like a gang member,” You said. “He was close enough.”

The victim was 17, and others were hit by bullets too.

You was convicted of murder and attempted murder in 1996 and has no chance of parole until 2025. He could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

In his obituary, You doesn’t mention his crime. Instead, he describes a heroic death — being stabbed while trying to break up a racially charged fight in a prison classroom.