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Amarai Roper Smalls

Case from North-charleston, SC dated Oct 26, 2016

Victim Details

Amarai Roper Smalls

Male

Black / African American

North-charleston

SC

2016-10-26

17

Amarai

Roper Smalls

07/07/2026

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On an autumn Wednesday in 2016, 17-year-old Amarai Roper Smalls, a Black male from North Charleston, headed into a neighborhood off Ranger Drive that had already been rattled by gunfire in recent weeks. Along that stretch near Interstate 26, another young man had been killed the month before and yet another wounded in a drive-by shooting, a grim backdrop that made the sounds of sirens on the night of October 26 feel tragically familiar. When calls came into Consolidated Dispatch a little after 8 ...
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  • Teen fatally shot in N. Charleston identified; 2 teens in custody
  • No bond for 17-year-old charged in death of N. Charleston teen
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