Thomas Jefferson Byrd, a 70-year-old Black man, was killed in Atlanta after a burst of gunfire shattered the early morning quiet on October 3, 2020. Police said he was found unresponsive in the yard of a home on Belvedere Avenue in southwest Atlanta at about 1:45 a.m., suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his back, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Byrd was widely known as a gifted stage and screen actor, especially for his work in Spike Lee films, and his death landed with a special
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