Willie James Douglas, Jr., 38, a Black man, was caught up in a burst of gunfire in North Memphis on April 28, 2018, violence that sent people scrambling for cover and left him gravely wounded. In the immediate chaos, those around him did what they could to get help—rushing the injured toward medical care while police began trying to reconstruct what had happened and who had pulled the trigger.
Accounts tied to the incident place the shooting near Springdale Street, with at least one ot
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