In the evening hours of December 6, 2019, a burst of violence shattered the relative quiet of the Daron Village Apartments in northwest Atlanta, leaving a family and a community to grapple with a sudden and tragic loss. It was at approximately 8:15 p.m. that 32-year-old Derek Ward, an African American male, was discovered lying in the driveway of the Harwell Road apartment complex with a gunshot wound to his head. Emergency services were quickly summoned, and Ward was rushed to Grady Memorial Ho
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