On Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022, the quiet of Wiggins, Mississippi, was broken by the discovery of Kayla Cooper, a 22-year-old Black woman, fatally shot inside a modest home on Harrison Street. A family member found her unresponsive in a bedroom shortly after 1 a.m. and called for help. Responding officers and medics could do nothing; she was pronounced dead at the scene, with the county coroner indicating that she had likely been killed by a single gunshot wound as an autopsy was ordered to co
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