Alonzo Cortez, 22, a Hispanic male from Moultrie, Georgia, was with friends and relatives outside a home on Yates Lane just after midnight as 2017 began, the kind of New Year’s gathering built around noise, laughter, and people welcoming another year under the night sky. According to contemporaneous local reporting, the celebration turned catastrophic less than half an hour into January 1 when a bullet came down and struck him in the head. Authorities said the shot was tied to celebratory gunf
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