Hannah Critchfield

You know, one said Stand Your Ground became sort of a garbage dump for difficult-to-handle homicide cases.

And it has emerged as this open question for some researchers who study Stand Your Ground and sort of the ricocheting impacts on justifiable homicides in general on communities.

It was October.

And so she finished her shift.

It was a really busy season.

And so we drove to a nearby Popeyes to grab dinner.

Of course, when this conversation began, Williams wasn't able to eat.

I mean, it was, yeah, she was devastated.

she was confused.

She was shocked.

I mean, she hadn't heard any of this.

And, you know, the idea that your son's death is not considered a criminal act, I think that's shocking for anyone.

And she had a lot of questions, a lot of questions that, um,

I, as a reporter, couldn't answer.

The clearing of her son's case is documented publicly on the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office website, but you'd have to know where to look to find that, and she had no idea.

This is the story of a family who, they didn't have a car, and the resources that were available to them were very scarce.

And you couple that with the...

grief that any of these families experience, just the regular weight of loss.

It's an incredibly disempowering thing to have a family member die in this way in the first place, as well as an incredibly devastating thing.

And so when you add on top of that, this factor of having limited time and limited resources