Jovan Reynard Dumas was a 31-year-old Black man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. On July 11, 2015, his life ended in gunfire, one more sudden loss in a city where a single night can change everything. In online records that memorialize shootings across the country, his death is consistently described as the result of gun violence, with Baton Rouge named as the place where it happened.
What remains striking, reading what is publicly available, is how little of the story has been filled in for
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