Joseph A. Harris III, 43, a Black man, was found dead on the morning of February 2, 2019, in Richmond�s Fan neighborhood. Just after daybreak, officers were called to the 2000 block of West Cary Street for reports of a person down. Behind an apartment building�out of the main flow of the street�he lay unresponsive in a rear area, suffering from what police described as an apparent gunshot wound.
In the first hours of the investigation, detectives made it clear they did not believe what h
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