In the early morning hours of July 5, 2015, the sound of sirens pierced the quiet of a University City neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. A fire had broken out at a home on the 6800 block of Julian Avenue, drawing an emergency response. Inside the smoke-filled residence, firefighters would discover the body of 33-year-old Jeremy Smith, a Black male who had lived in the home for three years.
Initially, the circumstances surrounding Smith's death were unclear, with some neighbors speculat
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