Keon Latuan Yarber, a 31-year-old Black man from Atlanta, was shot in the early hours of July 4, 2021, in the city’s historic Sweet Auburn area. Police found him just after 1:15 a.m. on William H. Borders Drive with multiple gunshot wounds, and later reporting said he had been shot multiple times in the back. He was rushed to a hospital, but he did not survive. In the first public accounts, the killing stood as one more act of violence in a brutal holiday weekend that left Atlanta reeling, wit
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