STEPHENS, Judge.
The facts of this case are easily stated but hardly understood. Around 2:00 a.m. on 6 May 2004, twenty-two-year-old Reginald Johnson was outside an apartment complex on Weaver Street in Durham, where he lived with his mother. Nineteen-year-old Tyrone Lamont Dean ("Defendant") and five other men, all of whom were members of the "Eight-Trey Crips" gang, were outside the apartment complex selling cocaine. The men mistook Reginald Johnson for a leader...
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