In the early morning hours of November 24, 2013, a sense of grim finality descended upon the 1900 block of Howard Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia. There, Rodney Beanum Jr., a 28-year-old man, was found lifeless, having suffered multiple gunshot wounds. The initial discovery launched an investigation into what would be revealed as a robbery that had spiraled into a fatal encounter, cutting short a young man's life and setting in motion a chain of events that would lead to the arrest of four in
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