Gerald Wayne Frederick, a 38-year-old Black man, spent nearly his entire life in Oklahoma City, where he was born in November 1977 at University Hospital to Donald Wayne Frederick and Audrey McCoy. He grew up in the city's north-side schools, attending John Marshall High before enrolling in Job Corps, where he earned his GED and a certificate in welding, training for steady, hands-on work that could support a family and a future. Friends and relatives later remembered him as rooted in his hometo
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