On an early Sunday morning in May 2018, 21-year-old Black man Cortez Denzel Hardy was inside a small home in the 1300 block of South Street in Vicksburg, Mississippi, when the quiet before dawn was broken by gunfire. Just before 4:30 a.m., shots were fired from outside into the residence, riddling the house and striking Cortez multiple times. When Vicksburg police officers arrived, they found him inside with several gunshot wounds, evidence that the shooters had targeted the home rather than fir
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