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 fa
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