Sedarius “Shank” Toole, a 24-year-old male from Hickory, Mississippi, was remembered by those who knew him as joyful, someone who could light up a room even in ordinary moments. In the small communities clustered around the town of Lake, his name was familiar, part of the fabric of everyday life long before it would be spoken in the language of crime scenes and homicide briefings.
On March 31, 2021, that sense of normalcy was shattered. In Lake, a quiet town in Scott County, authoriti
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