Christopher Aaron “Big Chris” Brown was a 57-year-old Black man from Baltimore, Maryland. On August 16, 2018, his life ended in gun violence, leaving behind the kind of sudden silence that makes even ordinary streets feel different afterward.
In the days that followed, the public record that’s readily available online focused far more on who he was than on what happened in the final moments. Notices shared for family and friends laid out the rituals of goodbye—when people could g
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