Kordell Bates was a 25-year-old Black / African American man from Port Gibson, Mississippi, known to family and friends by the nickname “Pimp,” a hardworking young father who held a job with Cappeart Manufactured Housing in nearby Vicksburg and was remembered as loving, playful, and deeply devoted to his child and extended family. In the years before his death, those closest to him described him as kind-hearted, friendly, protective, and proud of the life he was building, the sort of person
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