Online records point to a single man: Raphael Warner—whose name also appears in local funeral notices as Raphael Cortez Warren—a 29-year-old Black man from the small Mississippi Delta city of Itta Bena, who died on Thursday, September 14, 2023, after being shot and killed in his hometown. His death is recorded in a national gun-violence memorial database, which lists the date and place of the shooting and notes simply that he was “lost to gun violence” in Itta Bena that day, with little
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