In the late summer of 2015, the city of Muskegon Heights, Michigan, was unsettled by a series of violent events that would culminate in the death of 21-year-old Darnell Leroy Byrd III. On the night of September 5, 2015, Byrd was discovered in a dimly lit alley, having sustained fatal gunshot wounds. His death marked a tragic chapter in a period of heightened violence that had gripped the community.
Just days before his own demise, on August 30, Byrd had been involved in another shooting i
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