A young Black man, Taquon Bates, was 21 years old when his life was cut short on a February evening in Memphis, Tennessee. On February 20, 2020, the city's Whitehaven neighborhood became the backdrop for a tragedy that would end in his death.
Details from online sources indicate that the events of that night involved both a shooting and a car crash. A section of East Shelby Drive was closed as a result of the deadly incident.
Despite the passage of time, publicly available informat
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