In the early morning hours of Saturday, April 4, 2020, a gathering among friends at a block party on Friendship Drive in Clinton, South Carolina, turned into a scene of violence that ended the life of 31-year-old Freddie Markell Byrd. A former football player for Clinton High School, known by the number 25, Byrd was a father who, in a tragic irony, had recently made social media posts pleading for an end to gun violence in his community. The party was underway just before a statewide stay-at-hom
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