Bryant Antonio West died on July 31, 2010, in Capitol Heights, Maryland. He was a 30-year-old Black man. In the small trail of public mentions that still remains online, his death is repeatedly anchored to that date and place, with one memorial record explicitly framing the loss as gun violence.
What happened in the moments that took him from his family isn’t laid out in the open, in the way some homicides are—no detailed public-facing police narrative, no widely syndicated first-day
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