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Steven Gardiner is the first Bahamian man to medal at the Olympics in an individual track event. He is also the first Bahamian man to win an individual gold medal in athletics.
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Bahamian Rastafarians look on in shock at a video showing some Rastas in Jamaica chanting and teaching Prince William how to beat their drum. Priest Rithmond McKinney says that would never happen in the Bobo Ashanti house. “We still have some sellouts amongst us”.
WATCH: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate, participate in the entertainment events at the Trench Town Culture Yard in Kingston.
The Royals joined in the drumming as members of the Rastafarian community chanted.
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A 60-year old American man was charged with shooting at police and defence force officers in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco last Friday. He pleaded not guilty to 7 firearm and ammunition related charges.
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Curfews throughout the Caribbean
🇧🇸- no curfew
🇧🇧- 9pm-5am*
🇻🇨- no curfew
🇯🇲 - 8pm-5am
🇹🇹- 10pm-5am*
🇰🇳- 1am-5am
🇬🇩- 12am-4am
🇩🇲- no curfew
🇧🇿- 9pm-4am*
🇦🇬- 11pm-5am
🇬🇾- 11pm-4am
🇱🇨 - 10pm-4am*
🇧🇲- no curfew
🇹🇨- 1am-5am*
🇦🇮- no curfew
🇻🇬- no curfew
🇰🇾- no curfew
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Bahamian double Olympic gold medalist Shaunae Miller-Uibo announced on Instagram that she and her husband, Maicel Uibo, are expecting a child.
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15-year-old (yes, 15) Carlos Brown ran a personal best time of 10.47s in his 100m semifinal at the u20 World Athletics Championships in Kenya. Did I mention that he’s 15???
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Shaunae Miller-Uibo has been inducted into the Wall of Champions. Her mother, Mabeline Miller, accepted her portrait on her behalf.
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Steven Gardiner has been inducted into the Wall of Champions.
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The Bahamian woman who died in a car crash in Minneapolis, Minnesota is 24-year-old Ebony Miller, according to her relatives. Miller, a scientist, was heading home from her second job at 2:30am on Friday when her car was struck by another vehicle. She was just a block from home.
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Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton sails in rainy weather during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Regatta off the Montagu foreshore. 📍Nassau, Bahamas
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Members of the Olympic team, led by 400m champion Steven Gardiner, are welcomed home to the sound of Junkanoo music. Gardiner proudly displays his gold medal.
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This Bahamian man was awarded $100,000 by a judge after he was body slammed by a police officer and had a knee placed on his neck. Despite then 20-year-old Lynden Saunders’ pleas, the officer told him “Yea, your ****ing neck gonna be bleeding soon.”
@GuardianNassau
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Update: Claudia and her kids are at a hotel resting comfortably. Good samaritans have stepped up and are committed to helping her find a job and place to stay. Thank you to everybody that reached out to help her.
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The mother of murdered university graduate Omar Davis jr. is comforted by memories of his upbeat personality and lively spirit.
@GuardianNassau
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive at Sybil Strachan Primary School for a joint school assembly. Rastafarians protested in the thunderstorm, demanding a full apology and reparations for slavery, and repatriation back to Africa for those who want to return.
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The man who was killed in Montell Heights on Tuesday night is 20-year-old Carlyle Johnson, according to his mother Donna Miller. She says her son was an aspiring marine mechanic who worked 7 days a week. A candlelight vigil will be held in his honor this evening.
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Curfew in The Bahamas is expected to end in 10 days. It’s been 593 days since it was first implemented on March 20th, 2020.
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Chantel’s story is really incredible. From facing eviction during the pandemic, to top 10 at Miss Universe. She’s a proud product of Englerston too 🇧🇸 Just incredible
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Video of that crash landing at LPIA today. The pilot took off with 4 passengers for Long Island, but quickly realized his landing gear was malfunctioning. He turned around and landed on a single wheel on an unused runway. The plane ended up in bushes but nobody was hurt.
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After seeing Dervin’s story, a stranger reached out and gave him a working ps4 and some games. He says he is grateful for the kind gesture.
18yo Dervin Stubbs is warning about the risks of doing business on Facebook after he traded an IPhone 7 + $20 for a broken ps4. The unemployed 18yo says the seller advertised a proper ps4 and controller. He says it was raining when they met so he didn’t check the item right away
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House Speaker Patricia Deveaux chastises St. Anne’s MP Adrian White as she defends her decision making during parliamentary proceedings. “When I took this chair, I learned this (the rule book) from page to page, because it was y’all who tell me to go learn it.”
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Today was my last day at
@GuardianNassau
. It was an amazing 4 years, and I’m forever grateful to the great people there + at
@OurNewsRev
. I’m leaving news for now so I can focus on some personal projects, but no doubt I’ll be back soon.
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Miss Bahamas Universe Chantel O’Brian competed under ‘The Bahamas’ instead of ‘Bahamas’ as previous queens have. “I'm thankful that I got to wear it as ‘The Bahamas’ and not just ‘Bahamas’ this time around. I got to really do it right so I'm grateful.”
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Shaunae Miller-Uibo wins semi-final 2 of the women’s 400m in a time of 49.60s. She advances to the final. Miller-Uibo, who ran conservatively down the stretch, appeared slightly emotional at the end of her run.
@OurNewsRev
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The teen at the center of a viral video showing him being roughed up by two police officers has filed a complaint against the officers, and his family has hired attorney Christina Galanos to represent him. 15-year-old Wellington Walkes told me he was made to feel like a convicted…
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Marital rape exemptions are rooted in the belief that a person’s spouse (read a man’s wife) is his property.
Your wife is not your property.
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A flamingo was spotted on Goodman's Bay this evening. We suspect it escaped from Ardastra Gardens Zoo.
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Steven Gardiner joked that it was Shaunae Miller-Uibo’s fault that he ran his semifinal in a big t-shirt. He says she came to his room before they went to run, and he ended up leaving his top.
@OurNewsRev
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The Columbus statue has had its right leg and right arm amputated. Video being circulated on social media shows a man hacking at the statue with a sledge hammer. As he hacks away he shouts “let’s go Bahamas”
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Omar Davis’ mother was driving around New Providence searching for his black Honda Fit on Tuesday after he didn’t return home on Monday night. She learned that police found a black Fit while listening to the livestream from a local news station and headed straight to the scene.
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A 24 yo who had her hair pulled by a police woman wants the officer to be disciplined. Lavonna Adderley says she respects police- her mom is the officer in the video holding her. She says she shouldn't have been at Charms but that's no excuse for what happened.
@OurNewsRev
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Family and friends of Carlyle Johnson held a candlelight vigil at the 20-year-old’s home in Marathon. It was a sad occasion, but loved ones offered tributes, many with funny stories, about the Kingsway graduate.
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Heartbroken family members say the student who was stabbed to death at GHS is 15-year-old Kenm Paul. His brother described him as a quiet boy who enjoyed basketball and track. His mother says the first call she ever got from his school was to inform her about his death.
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Jamaal Rolle presents a painting of Shaunae Miller-Uibo to her mother Mabeline Miller. Rolle: “I’m privileged to paint people from all over the world, but I’m most proud to paint my fellow countrymen.”
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BREAKING: Dr. Hubert Minnis just called Philip Davis to concede the election, and wish him well as prime minister.
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Police officers should all have at least associate degrees in social work, law, criminology...something....educate these men and women, please?
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Would you take the COVID-19 vaccine? Most people I spoke to said no. The reasons range from uncertainty about the vaccine’s effects, to this woman who says she’s reluctant because of sinus issues.
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Many older Bahamians are afraid of being replaced, so they will never teach the next generation. It's another product of mediocrity. Instead of striving to be their best so they wont be easily replaced, they get consumed by the feeling of being threatened.
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Normalize telling your friends when they should be ashamed of themselves.
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Highlights from Vocab’s 4th round knockout of Khing Kloud at Junkanoo Village on Monday night.
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20-year-old Shakinah Dean died at PMH a week after giving birth and testing positive for COVID-19, according to her mother Karen Dean. The young woman was admitted to hospital after she started vomiting blood. She wanted to be transferred to Blake Road but there was no space.
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Police officers confront a group of Rastafarians as they arrive at Sybil Strachan Primary School ahead of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The Rastas plan to protest and arrived with placards, signs and flags.
@OurNewsRev
@GuardianNassau
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First thing what I gurn do, get on my knees and thanking you, Lord 🙏🏾 because you brought me through, a rocky rocky road
Happy birthday to me 🥳
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We really did curfew for 602 days. Here’s to a new era 🥂 hopefully our civil liberties are never suspended again 🤞🏾
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McKinney says they would welcome Prince William and Kate Middleton to their camp, but they wouldn’t allow them to take part in their ceremony. Says they would offer them food and drinks, but the ceremony doesn’t belong to them.
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When last yal saw one of these? My barber gave me this yesterday…says he got it from another client
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Chair of the Bahamas National Reparations Committee Dr. Niambi Hall Campbell-Dean on the royal visit: “we think that this visit is an opportunity to really lay squarely on the shoulders of William and Kate the crimes against humanity for the genocide of the original people..
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Percentage of total population fully vaccinated against COVID-19 throughout the Caribbean.
🇰🇾- 78%
🇹🇨- 70.1%
🇧🇲- 69.14%
🇦🇮- 60.7%
🇻🇬- 54%
🇦🇬- 53.8%
🇧🇿- 51.83%
🇧🇧- 48.8%
🇰🇳- 46.7%
🇹🇹- 44.96%
🇩🇲- 35.85%
🇧🇸- 35.47%
🇬🇾- 33.07%
🇬🇩- 29.6%
🇱🇨 - 24.1%
🇻🇨- 18.35%
🇯🇲 -16.07%
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Physicians on Grand Bahama successfully removed a tumor from the brain of a 70-year-old woman. It was the first major brain tumor surgery of its kind on Grand Bahama according to the Public Hospitals Authority. Neurosurgeon Dr. Magnus Ekedede led the procedure.
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A juvenile who was pushed over a railing by a police officer at BAISS back in 2019 was awarded $26,000 in damages by a Supreme Court judge. Government (tax payers) also have to pay his attorney, Christina Galanos, $20,000 plus VAT.
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CARIFTA appeal judges stripped a gold medal from the wrong athlete after a protest in the u20 boys 110m hurdles. Team Bahamas identified the wrong Jamaican athlete as it protested the validity of the start of the race. Jamaican Demario Prince, the winner of the race, was…
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Charman Deveaux aka DJ Flex had both legs amputated in 2020 after contracting an illness. Today, he is walking with prosthetics, and back to DJing full time (including 4 recent trips to Exuma). He says he wants to be an inspiration for others going through trauma.
@OurNewsRev
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BREAKING: the oil drilling exercise off the coast of Andros has completed WITHOUT finding commercial quantities of oil, according to a press release on Bahamas Petroleum Company’s website. Drilling has now ceased and the well is being permanently plugged and abandoned.
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The next 3 Mondays are public holidays:
Monday, December 27th- Boxing Day
Monday, January 3rd- New Year’s Day
Monday, January 10th- Majority Rule Day
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Really pleased to be able to announce that I’m returning to news. I’ll be the weekend anchor on Our News, starting tomorrow. I guess we can drink to that 🥂
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BTVI says it received an anonymous $200,000 donation- the largest in the institution’s history.
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12-year-old Vakita Richardson, a soon to be 7th grader at Queen’s College, explains why she wanted to take the COVID-19 vaccine. I spoke to her at Kendal Isaacs Gym after she took her first dose of Pfizer.
@OurNewsRev
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British heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has Bahamian roots. Her dad is a Bahamian- I worked with him at ZNS. Let’s wish her well as she competes in Tokyo!
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Kishanna has returned home safely, according to her brother.
Kishanna Bowe’s brother tells me she left a note on Tuesday saying she was joining a “Christian Orthodox” faith. He says she was spotted with her dog at various places yesterday, including Potter’s Cay dock. The teenager’s brother is asking anybody who may see her not to call out…
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I interviewed a woman yesterday who has trouble breathing when she smells strong odors like perfume, gas fumes or acid. Apparently she could smell my deodorant so we had to go with the super extendo-mic.
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Students doing virtual school under a tree in Kool Acres Haitian Village. A member of the community hosts about 15 children and ensures they have internet, power for their devices, and also helps with troubleshooting when there are issues.
Find out more tonight on
@OurNewsRev
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There is no curfew tonight as the emergency order will expire at 12am Saturday (November 13th), according to Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe.
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Fog over New Providence this morning. Video taken at around 6:50 from Blackbeard’s Terrace.
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When Castro wanted to teach all Cubans how to read in 1961, he closed schools early, and had those who could read (including teens) teach the illiterate population. A radical effort, and today Cuba’s literacy rate is 99%.
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Chantel has been building up to this moment since she was 19. She was 1st runner up in Miss Bahamas Universe in 2013, 2nd runner up in Miss World Bahamas in 2014 and winner of Miss World Bahamas in 2015. Dedication personified.
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British Airways will resume direct service to The Bahamas today. It’s the first direct flight since March 2020.
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Losing the race might have been embarrassing, but the post-race reaction was pretty shameful
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This is, hands down, the most important election in The Bahamas’ modern history.
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GALLERIA: Adult ticket prices will be reduced from $10 to $7 for the remainder of the emergency order, according to the theater’s owner. Children’s tickets will remain at $5. The cinema will show a mix of new and old movies.
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For all the people saying that guy should have aimed for Columbus’ head…in his defense, he said the statue was really tall
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Miller-Uibo on 200m final: "What God has for you, no man can take away. That one just wasn't for me and so now I'm going to focus on my 400 and I know he'll see me through so I'm just going to keep my faith in him and let him have his will.”
@OurNewsRev
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Update: The virtual school in Kool Acres Haitian Village has received a dozen plus donations since its story aired on Our News. Donations included tablets, cash, new desks, internet service for a year, and pizza just to name a few. The program’s coordinator is grateful.
Students doing virtual school under a tree in Kool Acres Haitian Village. A member of the community hosts about 15 children and ensures they have internet, power for their devices, and also helps with troubleshooting when there are issues.
Find out more tonight on
@OurNewsRev
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Christmas in The Bahamas could never feel right without Junkanoo
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I can put on any Olayemi video and know that I’ll either be educated or entertained, but most likely both
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Really pleased to be able to announce that I’ve returned to The Nassau Guardian as assistant broadcast editor. Very grateful to
@GuardianNassau
for having faith in me, and I’m looking forward to continuing to deliver accurate, important news in a timely fashion.
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I think Jamaica underestimates the deep respect Bahamians have for Jamaican track and field. The truth is Bahamian track and field comes from the rib of Jamaica, and we know it. Bahamian u20 sprinter Carlos Brown’s mother is Jamaican…Pauline Davis-Thompson’s mother is…
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Freshly paved road leading to Sybil Strachan Primary School. You can still smell the tar.
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After 6 tough months, I’m officially a U.S. Soccer C license coach. To my family, friends, colleagues and everybody at Kix Academy, thank you for your support, from the bottom of my heart.
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I learned a lesson from a 9 year old yesterday. I made him captain of his team and they won a penalty ⚽️. He let a younger teammate take the penalty- I asked, are you sure? He was sure (I genuinely wasn’t). The player scored. They all celebrated. Lesson: give people a chance.
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The Bahamas will absorb the costs of the royal visit including accommodations and meals for the couple and their staff.
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U20 World Athletics Championships Update:
18-year-old Rhema Otabor finished 4th in the final of the women’s javelin throw, with a mark of 55.08m. That’s a new u20 national record. Congrats Rhema!
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Prime Minister Philip Davis addresses the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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Kristoff Wood is stoic as he describes the impact end-stage kidney failure has had on his life.
The 28-year-old former national athlete needs a $400,000 kidney transplant and his brother is a match.
A gofundme he set up yesterday has raised more than $12,500 so far.
Kristoff Wood's Kidney Transplant Fund
Kristoff is a great athlete and a fellow coach. Please help if you can, even by just spreading the word.
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Members of the Rastafarian community say they shouldn’t have to pay the $10k license fees to enter the diff segments of the cannabis industry. They say they’ve been persecuted enough over the years and have paid their dues. They also want their sacramental rights acknowledged
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A fifteen-year-old who was injured after shielding his brother from a speeding car is angry that the driver didn't stop to see if they were okay. 1/2
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Police: four police officers will be charged with manslaughter at 12:30pm.
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The boy who was killed on Thursday night is 10-year-old Kenron Dean, according to his mother. He was a student at T.G. Glover Primary School. His twin brother and cousin were also shot.
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