Roger Wilson Lyon, a 9-year-old male from Buffalo, New York, died on August 7, 1924, in a night that left an entire household silent. While the city slept, the violence came from inside the family itself, turning what should have been an ordinary summer night into something irreversible.
Accounts describing the deaths say Roger was shot in the head as he slept, after his mother, Agnes Rogers Lyon, had also been shot. His little brother, Henry Hopkins Lyon Jr., was killed the same way, an
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