Willie James Merrell, a 60-year-old Black man from Byromville, was at first described as one of the dead in a baffling burst of violence that shattered Hill Street before dawn on January 25, 2018. Deputies were called to the neighborhood around 4 a.m. and found Priscilla Adams, 47, and 17-month-old Jashun Ingram shot to death outside a home, with a 17-year-old girl badly wounded but still alive. Hours later, Merrell was found dead in his backyard across the street, and because his body was disco
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