Keyan Demetrius Watkins, a 34-year-old Black man, died on April 18, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana, just days after a sudden burst of violence shattered an otherwise ordinary stretch of life. Born December 7, 1983, Watkins was gone at 34, leaving family and friends to gather for a memorial weeks later with the kind of grief that feels unreal, as if the world has made a clerical error and might still fix it.
In the early morning hours of April 15, police and paramedics rushed into the Br
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