Tony Nelson

Tony Nelson was only 24 when his life ended, a young man from Detroit whose story now feels defined by an absence that can’t be filled. He was a Black male, and even in the bare facts, there’s a weight to his name—because a name like his belongs to someone who had routines, favorite places, people who expected him to call back, and a future that still should have been unfolding. Whatever his days looked like right before everything changed, they mattered, and so did the moments that came b ...