In the summer of 2016, a promising life was tragically cut short in Monticello, Mississippi. Shaniqua Nicole Dawkins, a 24-year-old Black female from Hattiesburg, was visiting her boyfriend, Denzel C. Nash, also 24, in the early morning hours of July 20th. The visit took a devastating turn in what authorities would later describe as a murder-suicide.
Around 1:00 a.m., inside a residence at the Westover Apartments, Nash used a 9mm semi-automatic handgun to fatally shoot Dawkins. Shortly af
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