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YOU’RE THE JUDGE!

Sitting in his car, James Blue III, 43, chatted on the phone to his eldest son.

It was 25 January 2022 and he was waiting outside a house he and his wife Lekeshia were renovating on Walker Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland.

Expecting delivery men to arrive any moment with a new fridge for the investment property, he kept his eye out for them.

Only, as he talked to his son, who was away at uni, a young man approached his Honda Accord.

Seeing James’ window cracked open, the lad called out to him.

On the other end of the phone, James’ son heard shouting, his dad and the boy arguing.

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