Tyree Cyphess

In the early hours of a Tuesday in late March of 2012, the life of a young Black man named Tyree Cyphess, who was 19 years old, was cut short by violence on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. On March 27th, at approximately 12:50 a.m., Cyphess was found at 6200 Pioneer Drive, having been fatally shot.

The incident was recorded as a homicide, another statistic in the city's ongoing struggle with violent crime. Despite the official classification of his death as a murder, publicly availabl ...