Darris Anthony Brooks, a 42-year-old Black man from Greenwood, South Carolina, spent most of his life in the community that surrounded Florida Avenue, where family and routine gave shape to his days. Born in nearby Abbeville, he was the son of Mary Ann Brooks Saxon and the late Danny Ray Brooks, and had settled at 210 Florida Avenue, a modest address that kept him close to relatives and lifelong friends. Those who remembered him publicly described a man deeply rooted in Greenwood, a working fath
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