On a Thursday in Atlanta, June 20, 1901, a 45-year-old White male named Edward H. DeBray met a violent and untimely end. A police officer with four years of service to the Atlanta Police Department, DeBray was deliberately lured into a fatal ambush at the intersection of Holderness and Gordon Streets. The events of that day were set in motion by a citizen who notified him of a supposed fight. Trusting the report, Officer DeBray followed the individual to the scene, only to find himself surrounde
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