Corey James Zephier

Corey James Zephier, a 30-year-old man from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was killed in the early hours of January 5, 2018, in violence that investigators and later court testimony tied to a drug deal that spiraled into a robbery attempt outside an apartment building in the city. He went out that night in the company of others, moving from a nightclub to a series of late-night stops, the kind of restless, after-midnight orbit that can feel ordinary—until it isn't.

In the account laid out a ...

Argus Leader: Documents: Both sides fired weapons in 'drug rip gone bad'

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