On a cold January evening in 1989, the life of a young woman named Ruby Denise McLemore was tragically cut short. She was a 21-year-old Black female. In the fading light of January 15th, on NE Holman Street in Portland, Oregon, the sound of what a resident believed to be gunshots pierced the air. When the resident looked outside, they discovered McLemore lying in the street.
Though gravely wounded, she was still alive but unable to communicate what had happened. The resident quickly calle
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