On January 27, 2018, 19-year-old Deshawn Smith, a Black male from Memphis, Tennessee, was shot and killed in the city’s Whitehaven area, with news listings tied to his memorial pointing to reports of a single fatal shooting at the Peppertree Apartments complex that day. The headlines preserved alongside his online memorial refer to a “19-year-old father” who died after a shooting in Whitehaven and to one person killed in a shooting at Peppertree Apartments, anchoring his last moments to a
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