Alfred Rogers, a 69-year-old man from St. Louis, Missouri, was killed in a shooting on August 19, 2015, a date that would become the hard edge on which his life is remembered. The public record that remains is spare but unmistakable: he was lost to gun violence in Saint Louis that day, and his death was treated as a homicide rather than an accident or a natural passing.
What can be traced in online documentation is the afterimage of a life that ended abruptly. A memorial listing places h
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