On February 11, 2016, Cammie Burnett, a 76-year-old Black/African American man from the small town of Fayette in Jefferson County, Mississippi, was killed by gunfire, his name later added to the long national roll of victims remembered by the National Gun Violence Memorial. Public records there remember him simply and starkly as “lost to gun violence” in Fayette on that winter day, with his age carefully noted but little else about his life, leaving family, friends, and neighbors to carry th
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