Detroit is a city where tragedies can flare bright in the headlines—or vanish into the background noise of a busy day. Thomas Smith, a 48-year-old man from Detroit, is one of the names that surfaces online without the usual trail of narrative that follows a violent death: no clear public accounting of what happened, no widely circulated report describing where the final moments unfolded, and no official statement that unmistakably ties the name to a specific incident that the public can follow
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