Mario Applewhite

In the early evening of September 19, 2019, in Indianola, Mississippi, the life of 31-year-old Mario Terell Applewhite, a Black male, was tragically cut short. Just after 6:30 p.m., at the intersection of Bates Avenue and Walker Street, gunshots rang out, leaving Applewhite with multiple gunshot wounds to his back. First responders arrived to find him unresponsive, and despite their efforts to revive him, he succumbed to his injuries. His vehicle, which he had been driving north on Bates, had ro ...

Mario Applewhite, age 31 - National Gun Violence Memorial