Allen Jerome Cooper Jr., a 17-year-old African American male, was shot and killed on the night of April 26, 2017, in Lancaster, South Carolina. A promising student and athlete at Lancaster High School, Cooper had just finished playing in a community basketball game at the Hope on the Hill Recreation Center on West Meeting Street. As he was leaving the facility around 9:00 p.m., a gunfight erupted in the parking lot. Police described the incident as a shootout between rival gangs, with shots fire
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