David Lavon Mitchell Jr. was a 19-year-old Black/African American man from the west bank of St. Charles Parish whose last ordinary weekend unraveled into a mystery that would haunt his family for years. In mid-July 1997, he spent time with relatives during a family celebration and then moved through familiar river-parish roads and gathering spots, the kind of summer nights where people drift between homes and parties and expect everyone to turn up again the next day.
He didn’t. When he
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