Trellis Burnett, a 30-year-old Black man from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, known to those close to him as “TJ,” had just come home to the Gulf Coast on a Thursday night in late October 2020. He was returning from the airport, driving back through the familiar streets of his hometown, when he pulled up in front of his mother’s house on Keller Street, parking outside as he had done countless times before.
At 11:21 p.m., the calm of the neighborhood shattered. Bay St. Louis police rece
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