On a Sunday night in mid-April 2018, 23-year-old Black / African American woman Verkina Townsend was inside a modest home on Windham Street in Bennettsville, South Carolina, when her life was abruptly cut short. Shortly before 11 p.m. on April 15, gunfire shattered the quiet of the neighborhood. When officers arrived, they found that she had been shot inside the residence, while three other people who had been in the home with her were physically unharmed. From the outset, police treated the sho
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