Devon A. Houston, a 23-year-old Black man from the Eight Mile area of Mobile County, was killed on August 8, 2015, a death that left only a thin public trail behind it and a much larger sense of loss. The clearest records that remain online are the ones that mark the end of his life rather than explain it: his obituary notices in Mobile and funeral-home memorial pages, which confirm his name and the date he died. Gun-violence memorial listings also place his death in Eight Mile on that same date
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