Lorenzo Smith, a 21-year-old Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, died on January 20, 2013. The public record that surfaces most clearly online is a death notice published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which places his death in southwest Atlanta and confirms the date, but offers little else about the circumstances that took his life. That absence of detail gives the case a particularly hollow feeling: a young man dies, his name appears in the paper, and then the public trail almost immediatel
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