In the winter of 2020, just days before Christmas, the life of a promising university student was tragically cut short in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Rodderick Lakeem Sparks, a 23-year-old Black male, was fatally shot on December 21, 2020. A student of business management at the University of South Carolina Upstate, he was on the verge of graduating.
The evening of the shooting, deputies responded to a call at an apartment complex near the university campus. There, they found that Sparks
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