No. All of the characters and incidents that appear in How It Went Down are fictional.
However, the fictional shooting of Tariq Johnson that occurs in my novel is similar to real incidents of violence that have occurred around the country in recent years. If you follow the real-world news, you may very well recognize some of the issues and discussion that come up between characters in my novel. Part of why I wrote the novel was to explore these issues in the context of fiction. I hope that it might add a new perspective to the important conversation about these tragedies.