Alexander Monroe Murell

Alexander Monroe Murrell, a 64-year-old Black man, was killed in Baltimore, Maryland on November 25, 2009, his name joining the year’s running tally of lives lost to violence in the city.

That day, he was found in the 2400 block of Edmondson Avenue, a stretch of West Baltimore where traffic and storefronts give way to side streets and stoops, and where the smallest commotions can get swallowed by the usual noise of the neighborhood. Publicly available case lists place him at that locat ...