Bryiant A. Mayfield, a 35-year-old Black man from Chester, Pennsylvania, died on July 6, 2012. The online record that survives about him is strikingly thin, which makes the outline of his life stand out all the more. His obituary says he was the son of Ernest A. and Irene Della Mayfield, that he had married Camill Nicholson in February 2010, and that he was attending the Community College of Philadelphia, where he was studying Human Services. In those few details, he emerges not just as a homici
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