William Turner

William Turner, 60, died in Detroit, Michigan, and the only public trace that remains in the information at hand is stark in its simplicity: his name appears in a national homicide-records project that sought to document who was killed in major American cities and whether those deaths were ever met with an arrest. In that kind of record, a life is reduced to a handful of fields, and yet even those spare details carry weight. They say that a man existed, that he was lost, and that his death was s ...