In the late hours of a Sunday evening in Newport News, Virginia, the life of 18-year-old Dwayne Leroy Parker was tragically cut short. On March 8, 2015, police responded to calls of gunshots around 11:15 p.m. in the vicinity of Ivy Avenue and 9th Street. There, they found Parker, a young Black male, lying in the road, having sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Investigators remained at the scene until the early morning hours, beginning the painstaking process of piecing together the events that l
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