“That’s what I’m talking about,” Fultz replied, according to court records. They then agreed to meet up shortly for an exchange.
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His mother died a couple of years later, and one of the cousins Fultz was close with was killed in a gang shooting. With his aunt working full time and raising other children, Fultz often felt like he was on his own.
For the next decade Fultz was in and out of jail and prison, mostly on drug charges. But every time he went home, he started selling again to support his habit and hopefully have a little money left over for his three kids. “The drugs had me in a whole other state of mind,” he says. “I wasn’t expecting to get into trouble.”
He’s in a drug treatment program and taking classes in culinary arts and warehousing management with the hopes of having job skills when he leaves in 2018. “No more short cuts.”
