On a warm August evening in Columbia, South Carolina, the lives of two families were irrevocably shattered. Sixteen-year-old Terrence Merchant, a male with his future stretching before him, was with his 12-year-old friend, Courtney Dixon, outside of her home on T.S. Martin Drive on August 26, 2004. Their youthful evening was violently interrupted when a group of young men approached them and one individual began shooting. Both Terrence and Courtney were critically wounded in the attack. They wer
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