On a cold December evening in 2021, traffic along Shady Grove Road, a two-lane route that winds through the woods north of St. George, South Carolina, moved as usual through the early winter darkness. Behind the wheel of his car was Edwin Montez Boyd, a 44-year-old Black man from the small Dorchester County town he had long called home. According to the Dorchester County coroner, Boyd died on December 22, 2021, from gunshot wounds; deputies later described how his car was found on Shady Grove Ro
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