May 14, 2015 · When Gillian Laub started photographing the racially divided town of Mount Vernon, Ga. — with its segregated homecomings and proms — she stumbled onto the story of Justin Patterson, a 22-year-old...

Apr 27, 2012 · Justin Patterson's murder in Georgia, with shades of the Trayvon Martin case, hasn't elicited marches, protest, notice on Nancy Grace or Anderson Cooper, or hardly any media.

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Apr 26, 2012 · One of them hit Justin Patterson, who was 22 and black. The bullet pierced his side, and he died in Mr. Neesmith’s yard. His younger brother, Sha’von, then 18, ran through the onion fields...

May 13, 2015 · In the wee hours of Jan. 29, 2011, a 66-year-old white man named Norman Neesmith shot and killed a 22-year-old African-American named Justin Patterson. By all accounts, Justin and his brother...

Jun 5, 2015 · Now, in her new HBO documentary film (and photo book) “Southern Rites,” Laub returns to Mount Vernon again—this time chronicling the aftermath of the killing of 22-year-old Justin Patterson,...

May 18, 2015 · When Laub returned to document Montgomery County High School’s first integrated prom, she was threatened and kicked out. She then stumbled across the story of Justin Patterson – a 22-year-old...

May 18, 2015 · 'Southern Rites' chronicles segregated proms and the trial of Norman Neesmith, a white man who shot and killed unarmed black man, Justin Patterson.

Dec 10, 2016 · FRANKLIN — A district judge declared a mistrial late Friday night in the murder trial of Justin Edward Patterson for the May 2013 shooting death of Mikki Jay Dauntain in Morgan City. The jury deadlocked after over seven hours of deliberations.

May 19, 2015 · She found “a more complicated story,” as she puts it in the subject of her excellent new documentary, Southern Rites, which carefully, significantly reports the murder of Justin Patterson, an...