Michael Jr. Johnson

On January 25, 2008, Michael Johnson, 24, was killed in Baltimore, Maryland, with the death recorded at the 2000 block of West Lafayette Avenue.

The entry that documents his death places him among the city’s homicide victims for that year, but it offers little beyond the bare coordinates of where the violence surfaced and the date it was counted as a killing. In that sparse accounting, his name appears without the added context that so often follows a murder in a city log—no short sy ...