Christual Johnson, a 23-year-old Black woman, was living in Memphis, Tennessee, when her life was cut short in late February 2015. Born on September 19, 1991, in New Orleans, Louisiana, she was remembered in the wake of her death as someone rooted in family, faith, and community, with loved ones left trying to make sense of a loss that came far too soon.
As the news spread around Memphis, the circumstances were described publicly as part of a grim, domestic-violence-linked episode that a
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