Shortly after midnight on December 27, 1989, security guard Richards Butts, a 61-year-old male whose race or ethnicity was not specified in available public records, was working the overnight shift at the Short Stop convenience store at 48th Street and Broadway Road in Phoenix, Arizona. He was stationed there to protect the small neighborhood market and its clerk, Ron Barman, during the quiet but vulnerable late-night hours. Contemporary accounts describe the store as nearly empty at that hour,
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