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Bees You know, Rogers is a small city in Arkansas that was founded in 1881 as a railway town along the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.

It was developed as an agricultural shipping centre, especially for poultry and farm products.

Then in 1962, a man named Sam Walton opened a small five-and-dime store right in the heart of Rogers.

It was humble and unassuming, but it was the beginning of something massive.

That little store eventually grew into Walmart, the largest retail corporation in the world.

And even as the company exploded in size and scope, Rogers clung to its roots.

Today, the historic downtown is preserved, with brick-paved streets and turn-of-the-century

storefronts cafes and

boutique shops. Away from the quaint downtown along South Dixieland Road lies the Rogers Police

Department. This is where the 911 Dispatch Centre is housed. Here the Centre dispatches police

fire and EMS units not only across Rogers, but also neighbouring Benton County agencies.

It hums with routine calls from vendor-benders, domestic disputes and everything in between.

That's how the morning of September 26, 1999, began.

But at around 5 a.m. that morning, a phone call came in that would change everything.

There was a man on the other end of the line.

He sounded panicked, as he said.

I have a guy. He's dead. We're trying to resuscitate him.

Hell, he ain't but 14. I don't know what the fuck went wrong.

The operator tried to get more details, but the caller was frantic.

He continued,

We was playing some kind of goddamn game and tying each other up and all that shit.

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