In early January 2016, Albert L. Conner Jr., a 26-year-old Black man, died in Detroit, Michigan.
His death was recorded in an online obituary listing his birth date as December 10, 1989, and his death date as January 7, 2016. The notice was published through the James H. Cole Home for Funerals, a long-established Detroit funeral home, and it presents his passing as a memorial announcement rather than a public accounting of what happened.
Beyond the basic timeline, the publicly ac
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