A sense of quiet grief settled over the community of Abbeville, Louisiana, in the late summer of 2014. On August 11th of that year, Jeffery Randall Smith, a 58-year-old Black / African American male, was fatally wounded by gunfire. His life was cut short in an act of violence that left family and friends grappling with a sudden and profound loss. The incident marked another tragic entry in the statistics of gun-related deaths, forever altering the lives of those who knew the retired fisherman de
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