Blake Shurling, a 20-year-old white male and Georgia Southern University student from Tennille, Georgia, died in the early hours of August 31, 2016, after deputies were called to a residence in the 1000 block of Planters Lane in Statesboro and found him dead from a gunshot wound. The loss rippled outward quickly: the public reporting and his obituary sketch the outline of a young man whose life was anchored in family, school, and a hometown that had to absorb the shock of his death almost overni
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