In the summer of 2020, a gathering of remembrance in Nashville, Tennessee, was shattered by sudden violence, leaving a community in mourning and a family searching for answers. Derontae Teasley, a 26-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on the evening of July 5th. The incident occurred in the Cayce Place public housing development, where a crowd had assembled for a vigil in a breezeway in the 500 block of South 8th Street. It was there that the celebration of a life was tragically cut short by t
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