Vertis Lee Cornelius Jr., a 63-year-old man from Jackson, Mississippi, built a life rooted in faith, family, and steady work long before violence found him. Born in Jackson on December 1, 1955, he was the fourth oldest child of Vertis Cornelius Sr. and Verna Cornelius, part of a sprawling family whose ties stretched across Mississippi and into cities like Chicago and Milwaukee. As a young man he joined Morning Star Baptist Church in Jackson, where he publicly accepted and confessed Christ as his
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