LaCole Veronica Hines, a 17-year-old Black/African American female, was a new mother to a six-week-old baby boy in the summer of 2010. Her life was tragically cut short on August 9, 2010, in Landover, Maryland, a victim of gun violence. The events leading to her death were rooted in a custody dispute with her ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Marcus Desmond Shipman. Weeks before the fatal shooting, on July 25, Shipman had threatened Hines with a gun. This led to a felony arrest warrant being issued for
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