Todd Dubose

Todd Dubose, a 39-year-old Black man from Detroit, Michigan, died on March 6, 2011, a date that appears in both a public biographical entry and a compiled list of Detroit homicide victims from that year. In that homicide listing, his name is paired with the address 3344 Greyfriars St., placing his death on a quiet-looking residential block that day, at least as far as the surviving public record can pinpoint it.

What happened in the hours leading up to Todd’s death is difficult to reco ...