Late in the morning on June 7, 2016, a quiet stretch of Bessie Avenue in North Nashville cracked open with rapid gunfire, the kind that sends people diving to the floor before they even understand what they’re hearing. When the shots finally stopped, Kemontanez “KD” Armstrong, a 22-year-old African American man, lay wounded outside a home, while his stepfather, Keon Hawkins, was already dead at the scene.
Investigators pieced together a tense, ordinary start to the day that turned
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