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Sheriff's Deputies Shot And Killed Half-Brother Of Man Found Hanging In California

The family's attorney says the man killed is Robert Fuller's half-brother, Terron Jammal Boone. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Office says Boone fired several rounds at them first.

The half-brother of Robert Fuller, a black man found hanging from a tree near a City Hall in Southern California last week, was shot and killed during an interaction Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies, according to a statement from Fuller's family lawyer.

The sheriff's department did not identify the man shot on Wednesday in Kern County, but the

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