Sunshine Star Housey was a 26-year-old Black/African American woman from Columbia, South Carolina, whose life ended on April 21, 2015, after gunfire erupted outside the Colony Apartments along Bailey Street. It began in the early evening, the kind of hour when people are still out and voices carry, and the street had drawn a crowd that was already tense before the first shot was heard.
Police were first sent toward the apartments on reports of a civil disturbance just after 5:30 p.m., an
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