Martin Raines, a Black man, was killed by gunfire in Leesburg, Georgia, on November 23, 1889. The surviving online record is thin, but what does remain points in one direction: his death was reported at the time as a shooting by officers, and later memorial compilations preserved that basic outline, placing him among people killed by gun violence in Leesburg on that date. One surviving newspaper headline remembered online casts the event in the language of the era, saying he was shot while �on t
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