On a quiet Sunday in late September 2014, 20-year-old Adrian Javon Holmes, a Black African American man from the small unincorporated community of Pineland in Jasper County, South Carolina, was shot and killed, his life ending almost as abruptly as adulthood had begun. In a place better known for pine woods, country roads, and a scattered rural population than for headlines, the news of his death traveled quickly among family, friends, and neighbors who had grown up alongside him in the Lowcount
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