In the early morning hours of May 10, 2014, a night out in Athens, Georgia, turned tragic for 22-year-old Derrick Lee Merritt Jr., a male who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. As patrons spilled out of the Bootleggers nightclub onto Commerce Road after closing, a dispute broke out in a nearby vacant parking lot. The altercation, which did not involve Merritt, escalated quickly and violently.
Amid the chaos, shots were fired from a passing car into the crowd. Merritt was
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