On Sunday, May 17, 2020, Paul Edward Pierce, a 46-year-old white male from Seminary, Mississippi, died after being shot in or near the small Covington County seat of Collins, a quiet community strung along Highway 49 in the Piney Woods of south Mississippi. The date marks the abrupt end of a life that, in public records and memorial pages, had until then appeared only in the ordinary ways that people’s names surface in hometown newspapers and funeral notices. That evening, instead of routine l
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