Izzic Terrell Townes

In the early morning hours of Valentine's Day in 2014, a gathering for a dice game in Grenada, Mississippi, turned fatal for Izzic Terrell Townes. A Black/African American male, Townes was 43 years old at the time of his death. The Grenada Police Department received a call about a shooting on the 600 block of Govan Street shortly after 3 a.m. and arrived to find that Townes had been shot.

An altercation that erupted during the dice game escalated to the point of gunfire, resulting in the ...

Izzic Terrell Townes, age 43 - National Gun Violence Memorial