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Pain, lessons remain decades after Southern shooting

Pain, lessons remain decades after Southern shooting


Last in a four-part series

Shunda Wallace was 3 months old when her father, Leonard Brown, and another student, Denver Smith, were shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy on Southern University’s campus in Baton Rouge in November 1972.

Fifty years later, Wallace still does not know who killed her father. The anger and the grief for a dad she never got to know burn in her, especially when her 18-year-old daughter, Raven, asks questions she cannot answer.

Read more by following the link below:

https://www.mississippicir.org/news/pain-lessons-remain-decades-after-southern-shooting

By Claire Sullivan, Brittany Dunn, Shelly Kleinpeter And Allison Allsop
LSU Manship School News Service

The stories have received thanks from the family members of victims and have earned regional and national acclaim.


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