Edward Smith was 14, male, and Black, and he died in Baltimore, Maryland. In the public-facing online material that is readily available, his name appears without the kind of detailed narrative that often follows a homicide or suspicious death—no widely accessible report that lays out the location, the precise circumstances, or the sequence of events that led to his death.
What stands out, instead, is the quiet absence that follows: the kind of case where the public record feels like a
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