On a warm December day in 2020, amidst the anxieties of a global pandemic, 22-year-old Oren D'Lonte Anderson was fatally shot in Jackson, Mississippi. The incident occurred on December 9th in the 2200 block of Sloane Street, a neighborhood in South Jackson familiar to Anderson. He was inside a vehicle when the shooting took place, succumbing to a bullet wound. His death marked another grim statistic in a year of surging violence in the city.
Accounts suggest that on the morning of his dea
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