On a summer evening in Covington, Kentucky, the life of 34-year-old Edgar Lopez Jr. was cut short in a burst of violence. On August 8, 2023, what began as a physical altercation on Russell Street near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard escalated into a fatal shooting. When police arrived at the scene, they found Lopez with gunshot wounds. Another man was also injured, not from the gunfire, but from the fight that preceded it.
The investigation into the shooting revealed a grim sequence of e
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