Emuel Devonte Thomas

Emmanuel Thomas, a 21-year-old Black male, was killed in Baltimore on July 29, 2010, in the area listed as the 200 block of East Fayette Avenue.

In the thick, humid middle of that summer, the night ended the way too many Baltimore nights have ended: with a young man down, police flooding the scene, and a neighborhood left holding its breath. What could be pieced together from publicly available homicide listings is spare but stark—his name, his age, the date, and where the violence fou ...