On an August Sunday in 2023, 28-year-old Jamal Easterling, a Black man from Bennettsville, South Carolina, was out in the Society Hill area of neighboring Darlington County when violence found him on a dark stretch of Society Hill Road. In the quiet hours just before dawn, around 4 a.m. on August 6, deputies were called to the 4000 block of that rural road after reports of gunfire. When they arrived, they found Jamal mortally wounded; despite the efforts of first responders, he was pronounced de
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