David Carpenter was 30, a Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, when he died on July 1, 2022. His published obituary is brief�recording his death and the arrangements that followed�while an online gun-violence memorial listing places his death within the city�s broader, deadly wave of summer violence.
That holiday weekend in Memphis was already unfolding as a grim timeline. Police described a string of violent incidents beginning Friday evening: officers were called to Winchester Road at 5:
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