Lawrence Powell, 41, a Black man, was killed in Detroit, Michigan, on September 6, 2013, in a case that surfaced online not through a front-page headline, but through the kind of grim, running tally that tried to keep pace with the city�s violence that year. That entry places the fatal incident at the 3900 block of Canton Street, where he was found inside with a gunshot wound, down on the floor.
In the sparse way the record is written, the scene feels frozen in a single frame: an address
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