Larry Payne, a 16-year-old African American teenager, was killed on March 28, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Payne's death occurred during the violence that erupted following a march in support of the Memphis sanitation strike. According to multiple witnesses, as Payne emerged from the basement in the Fowler Homes housing development, police officer Leslie Dean Jones pressed the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun into Payne's stomach and fired, killing him. Payne reportedly had his hands up and had ask
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