In the late hours of a July night in Buford, Georgia, the life of 15-year-old Branden Gerena was tragically cut short. The young man, who had just completed his freshman year at Buford High School, was with a friend behind a gas station on Thompson Mill Road after midnight on July 1, 2019, when they were approached by a man in his 20s. In an instant, a single gunshot shattered the night, and Branden fell, the victim of what investigators would later describe as a robbery gone wrong. He was rushe
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