Marquette A. Collins was 28, a Black man, when his life ended in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 20, 2009. What survives in the public record is a life sketched in fragments: the date his family had to start counting time from, the places that gathered to mourn him, and a city already worn thin by late-night violence.
In the telling preserved online, Collins was shot outside the Rose Supper Club, a nightlife spot in Montgomery that had drawn repeated scrutiny over years for overcrowding, f
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