Brandon Lamont Gardner, a 27-year-old Black man from Springfield, Tennessee, was known as a devoted father of five long before the gunfire that ultimately claimed his life on November 10, 2014. Neighbors and local reporters would later describe his final year as one marked by both extraordinary survival and devastating loss, as if violence kept circling the same streets where he lived, worked, and raised his children.
Earlier that year, in the early hours of May 11, Gardner had already c
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