Blake Makel Haggins, a 17-year-old Black male from Tifton, Georgia, died on July 26, 2021, after a shooting that unfolded late that night in a part of town shaken by sudden violence. According to local reporting, Tifton police were first called to 13 1/2 Street after reports of shots fired. Not long afterward, officers were sent to the 1500 block of Garrison Avenue, where Blake was found in a yard with what authorities described as an apparent gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead, and the case
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