In early February 2016, Trevonte Hakeem Young, a 22-year-old Black man from Verona, Mississippi, was caught up in a burst of gunfire that would end his life and ripple through his community for years. He was spending time in south Tupelo when violence found him at Barley Courts Apartments, a low-income complex on Barley Street that has long been a dense cluster of families, friends, and intertwined histories. On February 8, 2016, he was shot there, an attack that left him mortally wounded.
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