Victory A. Watts, a 42-year-old African American man from Meridian, Mississippi, was killed on May 18, 2023, in a shooting that turned an ordinary neighborhood morning into a crime scene that shook those who knew him. News outlets and memorial pages later described him simply as a local man lost to gun violence, his name added to the long list of people in Meridian whose lives ended at the hands of a gun.
That Thursday began with police converging on 5th Street after a body was discovere
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