On the night of December 29, 2015, Richard DeShawn Barnes, a 43-year-old man from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was caught up in a quiet, late-December evening that turned suddenly violent. Shortly before midnight, a pickup truck rolled into the emergency bay at Forrest General Hospital, its passenger door open and broken glass scattered on the pavement. Inside was Barnes, gravely wounded by gunfire. Medical staff and responders could do nothing to save him; he was pronounced dead at the hospital, a
...Read More
Account
