Deondray Lamar Williams, a 26-year-old Black man from Phenix City, Alabama, died on July 8, 2020, after gunfire erupted in Columbus, Georgia. That night ended near Lafayette Drive and Patton Drive, where authorities found him with multiple gunshot wounds, and the killing left behind the kind of silence that settles hard over a neighborhood after sirens fade. His death was reported as a homicide, and local records and memorial reporting place the loss in Columbus even as his obituary ties him to
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