WATERBURY, CT – Jermaine B. Atkinson of Waterbury was 17 years old and attending Kaynor Technical High School when his father, Clarence B. Atkinson, purchased a new 1996 Ford F-350 XLT in December 1995. The pickup was soon nicknamed “Black Beauty” for its exterior looks. “He’s always been a Ford guy. He was a self-employed contractor. He would drive different vehicles. We didn’t have a lot of money so what he did is he made things. Instead of buying a ladder rack, he made one. I remember watching him make things for trucks,” Atkinson recalled on a morning in …
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