LaDarius Brooks, 24, a Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, was known around his neighborhood by the nickname “Tall 40.” On the night of March 7, 2015, he was at a house where friends and family had gathered, and word was spreading that a mutual friend, Demetris “Fat” Miller, had been shot earlier that day. The mood inside was tense but controlled as people talked through what they’d heard, unaware that the night was about to turn into something far more personal and deadly.
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