Tyler Jevon Shank, a 20-year-old Black man from Thomson, Georgia, had only just begun the adult life his family remembered with pride. Online obituary records say he was born in Augusta on November 18, 2000, grew up in McDuffie County, graduated from Thomson High School with the Class of 2018, and was working at HP Pelzer in Thomson before his death on March 27, 2021. Those memorial accounts describe a young man rooted in family, work, and hometown ties, which makes the violence that ended his l
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