Howard Lee Blackmon Jr., a 38-year-old Black male, was tragically killed in a burst of gunfire on a late Friday afternoon in Jackson, Mississippi. The fatal encounter unfolded on February 19, 2016, shattering the quiet of a residential neighborhood. Blackmon was caught in the crossfire of a shootout that erupted on Lelia Drive, a street that would become the scene of a complex and determined homicide investigation. He was not the only victim of the violence that day; another individual was also
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