In the autumn of 2018, the life of a young Black/African American man, Desmond Alonzo Jacori Bates, was tragically cut short at the age of 22. On the evening of October 6th, at approximately 9:30 p.m., events unfolded at the Lake Shore apartments on Garners Ferry Road in Columbia, South Carolina, that would end in his untimely death. Bates was confronted by an assailant in what investigators have described as an attempted armed robbery.
During the course of the robbery attempt, Bates repo
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