Karlos Brown

In the spring of 2011, a time when the city of Detroit was grappling with a surge in violence, 35-year-old Karlos Brown became one of its many tragic statistics. On April 11th of that year, the African-American man's life was cut short, his death later classified as a homicide. The specific details of how or where in the city he was killed have remained elusive, lost in the shuffle of a particularly violent period for Detroit.

The investigation into Karlos Brown's murder has yielded littl ...