On January 5, 1984, the community of Columbia, Mississippi, was shaken by the violent death of Deputy Sheriff Jerry Bryant, a 44-year-old male who had recently joined the Marion County Sheriff’s Department. Deputy Bryant had been serving with the department for only six days when the incident occurred. That evening, he was on patrol investigating a series of recent burglaries in the area when he encountered two men he deemed suspicious. In the course of stopping the individuals for questioning
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