In the summer of 2015, the community of Leland, Mississippi, was struck by tragedy with the death of 17-year-old Jacob 'Jake' Williams Jr. A rising senior and a celebrated football and baseball player at Leland High School, Williams' life was abruptly cut short on the evening of July 1, 2015, when he was shot on a street in his hometown. The Washington County Coroner pronounced him dead at the scene from a gunshot wound to his upper left chest. His father, Jake Williams Sr., was the police chief
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