On the evening of October 20, 2016, Paul Wyatt Russell Jr., a 30-year-old Black / African American man, was fatally shot at the intersection of West 39th and Stockton streets in Garden City, Idaho. Russell, a resident of Meridian, was not involved in the initial dispute that led to the shooting. He had simply arrived to pick up a friend who had been in an argument with Elena Ann Pena. The situation tragically escalated when Pena's boyfriend, Lyle Croson, and another man, Mykle Blumenshine, arriv
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