In the early hours of a June morning in downtown Grand Rapids, a dispute between feuding groups outside a Pearl Street bar escalated into deadly violence, claiming the life of 25-year-old Armonie Acklin. The young man, a father of three with another child on the way, was not a central figure in the conflict but had been attempting to de-escalate the situation when gunfire erupted. Acklin was one of four people struck by bullets in the chaotic moments that followed, and he tragically succumbed to
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