CUMMING -- As the nurse cleaned around the gunshot wound on Samuel Barrow Jr.'s body, she directed her staff to make the 15-year-old as presentable as possible – she didn’t want the teen’s family to see him bloodstained. Barrow Jr.’s family had already witnessed too much. His father, Samuel Barrow Sr., had tried to save the boy after he shot himself, but his son didn’t make it to the hospital alive.
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