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He’d escaped a difficult childhood, with a father beaten to death and mother behind bars, according to family members and court records. Timothy Simpkins went to live with his grandmother in an Arlington neighborhood where he excelled in school, aspired to be an engineer and enjoyed driving his Dodge Charger around town, relatives and friends said. But the skinny 18-year-old …

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