In the early afternoon of a spring day in Camden, New Jersey, the sound of gunfire shattered the ordinary rhythm of the neighborhood. On April 13, 2018, Laron Hornsby, a 24-year-old Black/African American man, found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Responding to a series of 911 calls and an alert from the city's gunshot-detection system, Camden County police officers rushed to the vicinity of Norris and Everett streets. There, on the sidewalk in the 1200 block of Everett Street, the
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