On an autumn evening in Winder, Georgia, the life of 34-year-old Brandon Lay was cut short in a fatal encounter with his own uncle by marriage, Paul Hamilton. The events of October 17, 2015, were set in motion when Hamilton, a former Barrow County magistrate judge, was led to believe that Lay had been stealing items from his property. This suspicion culminated in a deadly confrontation at the intersection of Charlie Hall Road and Old Hog Mountain Road, where Lay was found shot to death in his ve
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