On a Christmas Eve in New Orleans, a day typically filled with festive anticipation, 35-year-old Russell Whittington's life was tragically cut short. The year was 2016, and the holiday season was marred by a spate of violence in the city. Whittington, an African-American male, became a victim of this violence when he was fatally shot in the head during a drive-by shooting in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans on December 24th.
The incident was reported as a grim marker of a violent h
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