In the quiet town of Elkton, Maryland, the evening of May 3, 2015, took a tragic turn, forever altering the lives of one family. Inside his home, 38-year-old Derrick Smith, a Black/African American male, was fatally shot. The violence of that night did not end with him; his 22-year-old daughter, Tayonna Russ, was also killed, an innocent bystander in a dispute that had reached its lethal conclusion. The discovery of their bodies by Derrick's girlfriend and Tayonna's mother marked the beginning o
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