On Mother’s Day 2010, Kruz James Laviolette, a 21-year-old Black man from northeast Oklahoma City, opened his home for a party held in honor of his younger sister. What began as a celebration drew together relatives and friends, filling the house with the easy closeness of a family gathering on a spring night.
As the evening wore on, tensions flared among some of the guests and a fight broke out, turning the atmosphere from festive to volatile. Later accounts describe the confrontation
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