James Patton

Death by Force

In the quiet hours of a late March night in 2017, the life of James Patton, a Black / African American man, was brought to a sudden and violent end in Huntington, West Virginia. On Saturday, March 25th, the stillness was broken by the sound of gunfire, and when the ensuing chaos settled, Patton had been fatally wounded. The incident marked another grim statistic in the city's history of gun violence, leaving a community in mourning and a family grappling with an immense loss.

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