In the brisk autumn of 2014, a life was tragically cut short on the streets of North St. Louis. Mark Murphy, a 47-year-old African-American male, became another victim of the city's escalating violence on November 2nd. The circumstances surrounding his death were stark and sudden; he was fatally wounded by a gunshot in an area that had become all too familiar with the sounds of violence.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Division promptly took charge of the investiga
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