Rodrecus Partee, a 29-year-old Black man, was killed late on the night of July 3, 2021, in Memphis, Tennessee, at an airport-area stretch of American Way lined with budget hotels and traffic from I-240. Just after 11 p.m., officers were called to the Americas Best Value Inn at 3685 American Way, where they found him unresponsive with gunshot injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the kind of death that turns a busy corridor suddenly quiet as patrol cars seal off doorways and flashing lig
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