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On a New Year's Eve in Decatur, Georgia, a young Black man named Daniel Gordon, 24, was at his job as a mechanic at a local Tires Plus, a position he had started that summer and was excited about. That afternoon, a customer, 30-year-old Quadarius McDowell, brought his car in for brake work. As part of the service, Gordon began a test drive of McDowell's vehicle in the shop's parking lot.

McDowell, seeing his car in motion with Gordon behind the wheel, mistakenly believed his vehicle was b ...
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  • WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta: ‘It’s a sad day’: Tire shop employee killed by customer who thought car was being stolen, police say
  • Daniel Gordon, age 24 - National Gun Violence Memorial
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