On the night of May 6, 2022, 18-year-old Venson Mix, a male from Jackson, Mississippi, was caught up in a burst of gunfire that would come to symbolize one of the city’s bleakest weekends of the year. Police later said the shooting happened on Woody Drive, a stretch of road that residents knew well, but that suddenly turned into a crime scene when a bullet struck Venson in the back. He was not found at the roadside by first responders; instead, someone put him into a car and rushed him away fr
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