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From the shadows of the George Washington Carver School,

Eloise Franklin has just watched the Macon Police shoot her boyfriend, AC Hall.

Now the police haven't even seen her yet. But what if they do?

If she runs now, will they shoot her too? If she stays, well who knows?

None of what she has just seen makes any sense at all.

One minute she's strolling happily with AC, the boy she would later call her first love.

And the next AC is shot. And she's frantic.

She looks toward the police at final time and then tries to find some way to get to AC.

She reaches the street in front of the school and a second police car pulls up.

The detective behind the wheel asks Eloise why she's so upset.

They shot a boy, the police shot a boy, she says,

the detectives then race toward the back of the school.

Eloise sees AC, line in the street, and she runs toward him.

Before she can get to him, an ambulance arrives, picks up AC and races to the city hospital

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