Jimmy Stanback, a 25-year-old Black man, was killed in Minneapolis on May 7, 2016, in a case that has lingered in the city’s memory as both a personal tragedy and part of a larger season of gun violence on the North Side. Public reporting describes him as having been shot to death in an alley just outside his father’s home, a detail that gives the case a stark intimacy: the violence was not distant or abstract, but right at the edge of family space, close enough to deepen the shock for those
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