Alfredo Adams

Alfredo Adams, a 46-year-old White man, was killed in Detroit, Michigan, in early January 2012, his name later appearing among the city’s homicide victims from that year. The only location detail publicly recorded in the available online material places the death at the area of West Fort and West Grand Boulevard, anchoring the loss to a specific corner of Detroit even as most of the surrounding circumstances remain out of view.

What happened in the moments leading up to the killing—a ...