On September 15, 1997, at the R.E. Phelon lawn-mower parts plant in Aiken, South Carolina, David Wayne Moore, a 30-year-old white male, reported for work in the tool-and-die area as he had many times before. A resident of Aiken with a fiancée and close ties to his church and extended family, he was known as a tool-and-die machinist, a skilled position that placed him near the heart of the factory floor. That Monday afternoon, as shifts changed and workers moved in and out of the plant, there wa
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