Alexius Cotton, a 47-year-old Black woman from Jackson, Mississippi, was killed in a shooting that turned an ordinary Sunday into a scene of flashing lights and unanswered questions. By the time word spread through the neighborhood, the story was already settling into the familiar pattern of shock and disbelief: a life gone in an instant, a home transformed into a crime scene, and a family left to reckon with the silence that follows.
Late that morning, officers with Capitol Police were
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