Derrick “Slim” Reed was 34, a Black man, when his life ended on July 21, 2015, in Thibodaux, Louisiana. That summer night, gunfire erupted on Sanders Street, turning an ordinary stretch of the neighborhood into a blur of panic and headlights as people tried to make sense of what had just happened. Police were called to the 200 block of Sanders Street around 9 p.m., and Reed was counted among three victims taken to the hospital. He did not survive, dying at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center,
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