On a December afternoon in 2019 in North Memphis, 25-year-old Akasuki L.D. Pettis Waller, a Black woman and mother of three, was riding with the father of her children along Alma Street when an ordinary weekday collapsed into tragedy. It was Tuesday, December 17, just a week before Christmas, and their three young sons were at the center of their lives. The family lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and that day found Akasuki and her partner in a white SUV in the 800 block of Alma Street, a residential
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