In the late summer of 1997, the life of 31-year-old Ernest Leonard Filyaw, a White/Caucasian male, was tragically cut short in a place he likely considered a second home. On September 15th, Filyaw was at his job as a tool and die machinist at the R.E. Phelon Company in Aiken, South Carolina, a factory that manufactured lawn mower parts. A former employee, Hastings Arthur Wise, arrived at the facility with a semi-automatic pistol and a heart full of vengeance. Wise, who had been terminated from h
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