Charles Ellis, a 28-year-old Black man, was killed on January 19, 2019, in Monroe, Louisiana, in a shooting that left his loved ones searching for answers in the days that followed. In the wake of the gunfire, the city’s streets carried the familiar aftershock of sirens and secondhand rumors, but the public facts that emerged were stark: he was gone, and an investigation had begun.
As police worked the case, those closest to Ellis grappled with the silence that can settle in after a su
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