On a Monday afternoon, February 1, 2016, Julian Jay Thomas, a 23-year-old Black male, was fatally shot while sitting in his car at a busy Arco gas station in Tacoma, Washington. Just days after his girlfriend had given birth to their child, Thomas was at the gas station at 3601 Center Street when a man walked up to his Chevrolet Impala and opened fire. The gunman unleashed a barrage of approximately 48 bullets, stopping to reload multiple times. Thomas was struck at least 10 times. Two women who
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