On Sunday evening, January 8, 2017, 81-year-old Catherine Ione Wicker, a white woman from the Memphis area, drove to the Sycamore Lake Apartments in northeast Memphis to visit her adult son. She was known among family and friends as a nurturing, deeply kind person who was always ready with a helping hand. Obituaries and memorial tributes later described how she devoted herself to those she loved, especially her children and grandchildren, and how she often stepped in quietly to run errands, brin
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