In the late hours of a warm Saturday evening in Macon, Georgia, the lively atmosphere of a large block party, known as the 'Death Valley' party, was shattered by gunfire. On June 1, 2019, 22-year-old Deroderick Ridley, an African American male, was fatally shot at the gathering near the corner of Hillcrest Road and Log Cabin Drive. Another man, Marquis Simmons, was also wounded in the incident but survived.
The party, which had drawn a large crowd, spilled into a parking lot where an alte
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