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Black Friday Turns Even Darker: Four Shot, Two Killed.

   DailyWire.com

Black Friday turned truly black on Friday, as four people were shot, two fatally, during Black Friday sales across he country.

According to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, at roughly 1 a.m. on Friday, outside of the Macys department store at the Hamilton Mall, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, Demond Cottman, 21, was shot multiple times; his brother, Shadi Cottman, 26, was wounded with a gunshot wound to his leg. Demond Cottman died at the scene; his brother was transported to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center—City Division; he is in stable condition.

In Reno, Nevada, just after stores opened Thursday night, a Walmart customer was fatally shot when he fought over a parking spot. KOLO-TV reported that the altercation began as a road-rage incident; police spokesman Lt. Scott Shaw stated that the suspect was a light-skinned black male.

In Memphis, Tennessee, a man was shot at roughly 11:15 p.m. Thursday night outside the Wolfchase Galleria Mall, according to WREG-TV in Memphis. Three people are in custody; the victim, 21, wound up Baptist Memorial Hospital. Derrick Blackburn, 19, was arrested for unlawful possession of a weapon.

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