On the night of May 12, 2019, Aterrio Monroe, a 27-year-old Black male from the rural community of Awendaw, made his way to the Max Quick Stop convenience store on McMillan Avenue in North Charleston. It was a Sunday evening that should have ended like any other, with people drifting in and out of the corner store, cars pulling into the small lot and the hum of a quiet commercial strip at the end of the weekend. Instead, the visit would place Monroe in the middle of a sudden burst of violence th
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