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Suspect Charged in Racine Drug Party Shooting

Oct. 17, 2023 9p

(WGTD)---A Racine teenager was charged Tuesday in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred last month at the Gold Medal Lofts apartment building on the city's south side. 

According to the criminal complaint, 18-year-old Bernard Edwards was let into the building and allowed to enter an apartment where crack cocaine was being used by several people. 

Minutes later, 56-year-old Byron Beadles was shot. Edwards fled, purportedly throwing the gun down a storm sewer. The gun was eventually recovered. 

A motive for the shooting isn't clear.

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