William Henry Booker

On February 23, 2017, in the small city of Grenada, Mississippi, William Henry Booker, a 48-year-old male, died in a shooting that turned an ordinary day into a date his community would not forget. Public records and memorial sites place his death firmly in the context of gun violence, noting that he was one of many lives lost to firearms in Grenada but still emphasizing that he was a real person, not just a statistic on a list.

What is known from the fragmentary online trail is stark an ...