In the late evening of August 31, 2021, the quiet of Padgett Street in the Utica Mill Hill community near Seneca, South Carolina, was shattered by a disturbance that would end in tragedy. When deputies from the Oconee County Sheriff's Office arrived at the scene, they discovered 62-year-old Richard Dennis Keese lying in the roadway, suffering from a gunshot wound. Despite the immediate life-saving efforts of the deputies, a Seneca Police Department officer, and paramedics, Keese succumbed to his
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