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A Western Judicial Circuit judge this week granted bail to a 21-year-old transgender person who authorities say shot and killed a member of a rival transgender group in June at an Athens apartment complex . Rayquann Deonte Jernigan , 17, who was known to friends by the chosen name of Ava Le’Ray Barrin, was killed June 25 by a single gunshot allegedly fired by 21-year-old Jalen Breon Brown in the parking lot of Riverview Apartments on College Avenue, according to police. Police said the shooting occurred due to a feud between two groups of transgender people. Brown’s defense attorney Edward Brumby said his client was granted a $100,000 bond because he had no serious felonies and was not considered to be a flight risk. While free on bond, Brown must remain under house arrest and wear an ankle bracelet, according to bond restrictions imposed Monday by an Athens- Clarke County Magistrate Court judge . Neither Jernigan nor Brown lived at Riverview Apartments. Both were there to visi...

By Orval E. Allbritton 8/18/2017 • Wild West Magazine Major S.A. Doran’s gang ambushed Frank ‘Boss Gambler’ Flynn and two of his brothers in February 1884, triggering an exchange as deadly as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Most people who traveled to Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the 1880s did so to soak in the mineral baths in hopes of improving their physical health. Not so Samuel Alexander Doran , native Kentuckian and ex-Confederate major. In late fall 1883 Doran , who seldom visited a place without having some kind of confrontation (often deadly), was en route from New Orleans to the spa town in the Ouachita Mountains in hopes of improving his financial health. A dishonest gambler willing to back his card play with gunplay, Doran had broken the law in a string of towns from Kentucky to Texas. He had left more than a few places on bad terms and was lucky to have spent relatively little time behind bars. It was in New Orleans that Doran had met Jim Lane. Lane had owned and operate...