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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

‘He had a beautiful soul’: Tyre Nichols’s parents reflect on the son who was taken from them

A portrait of Tyre Nichols is displayed at a memorial service on 17 January in Memphis, Tennessee.
A portrait of Tyre Nichols is displayed at a memorial service on 17 January in Memphis, Tennessee. Photograph: Adrian Sainz/AP

Tyre Nichols, the latest in a long line of young American Black men whose death is tied to the police, was a “beautiful soul” and home-loving son with his mother’s name tattooed on his arm, his family and friends have said.

Described as “a momma’s boy” by his mother, RowVaughn Wells, the 29-year-old Memphis, Tennessee, resident, the youngest of four children, was also a father himself. He leaves a four-year-old boy whom he loved to teach skateboarding.

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