On a warm Sunday afternoon in July 2022, Dequin Garland Ellerbe, a 38-year-old Black / African American man from Timmonsville, South Carolina, was gunned down in broad daylight on North Commander Street in Florence. It was just after 4:20 p.m. when shots rang out in the 800 block, a modest residential stretch where families were used to the ordinary sounds of weekend life, not the sharp crack of gunfire. When officers and emergency responders arrived, they found Ellerbe lying outside a home, bey
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