Julius Donnell Powell

In the summer of 2009, the life of a 23-year-old Black male named Julius Donnell Powell came to a tragic end in Baltimore, Maryland. On July 3rd of that year, Powell succumbed to injuries that had been inflicted upon him more than five and a half years earlier. His death was the final chapter in a long and painful story that began with a burst of violence on Christmas Day in 2003.

The specific circumstances of the shooting on December 25, 2003, remain shrouded in the mists of time, with p ...