In the late hours of a Thursday in Memphis, the city was on the verge of marking another grim statistic in a year plagued by violence. It was around midnight on December 29, 2016, at the intersection of Vance and Lauderdale, that 39-year-old Derrian Poplar’s life was tragically cut short. He was discovered lying in the street, having sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Despite the immediate response from emergency services, Poplar succumbed to his injuries at the scene, becoming the city's 225t
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