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 sudd
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