In the early morning hours of August 28, 2021, a gathering on Oliver Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina, turned tragic. Leonard Lee Lyles III, a 36-year-old Black/African American man, was standing near the road, engaged in a conversation with another man in front of a house. It was around 4:20 a.m. when the sound of gunshots shattered the predawn quiet. Lyles was struck multiple times in his legs and upper body. He was rushed to a nearby hospital for medical attention, beginning a harrowing
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