Michelle Coleman of St. Martin, Miss., still lives in the home that her husband shot her, leaving her with nerve damage and telling scars. John Fitzhugh/MCIR
Michelle Coleman’s marriage had been rocky and violent, but things seemed better when she and her husband of a decade moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2017. After her new job at a medical unit in a jail, things “got physical,” she said, and she was forced to leave with her two children.