Autocomplete span styling

I'm using ajax to pull in content for an autocomplete and I'm using the custom item template. The data I'm pulling into the autocomplete consists of 3 items. One of those items, I want to stylize the font with a color using <span style="color:red;">. No matter what I've tried, it appears the styling is dropped when the autcomplete renders.

Here's my code:

new mdb.Autocomplete(asyncAutocomplete, {
  filter: asyncFilter,
  displayValue: (value) => value[name],
  itemContent: (result) => {
        return `
            <div class="autocomplete-custom-item-content">
                <span class="item item-name">${result[name]}</span>
                <span class="item item-status" style="color:${result.status_color};">${result.status}</span>
                <span class="item item-incident_date">${result.date}</span>
            </div>
        `
    },
});

Here's the output from devtools of a rendered item from the autocomplete:

<li data-mdb-index="2" role="option" class="autocomplete-item"><div class="autocomplete-custom-item-content">
    <span class="item item-name">Han Solo</span>
    <span class="item item-status">Open</span>
    <span class="item item-incident_date">2022-01-01</span>
</div></li>

Does the autocomplete support inline styles? I know classes are accepted, but I need the ability for inline styles here since this is dynamic.

Any ideas?

Thanks!