Stephen Ratti, 64, a Black man from Joplin, Missouri, died on March 7, 2021, and the morning he was found became the kind of quiet emergency that pulls a neighborhood out of routine. A call went out for a death investigation at 812 S. Vermont Avenue at 9:34 a.m., and officers were dispatched to the address under a “DOA” classification—an official shorthand that signals the gravity of what responders were walking into.
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