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THE TRAGEDY AND ACHING MYSTERY OF DILLION WILSON'S DEATH.(IDEAS)

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From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Date: 20030803
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I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Among the more haunting images in the tragedy of little Dillion Wilson - and there are many - is a cluster of black-garbed deputies with yellow tape measures intently studying a child-sized mannequin on a tricycle.

That's how the 2-year-old died, on his tricycle, in the seeming safety of his own driveway, when a bullet from nowhere suddenly struck him in the forehead.

More than a year later, the Davidson County Sheriff's Department has made an arrest. A 15-year-old ...

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