On a quiet Sunday morning in early June, when most of Anderson, South Carolina was just beginning to stir, the course of one man’s life was violently cut short. Ansel Tyrone Austin, a 52-year-old Black man, went about those early hours never knowing that this day would be the last chapter of his story. The sun was still low, casting long shadows across West Market Street, when a confrontation unfolded that would leave a lasting scar on his family and community.
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