Jerome Donell Turner

In the late hours of a cold Saturday in Minneapolis, on March 8, 2014, police were called to a home in the 1800 block of Hillside Avenue North. There, in the entryway of his own residence, they discovered 35-year-old Jerome Donell Turner, an African-American male, suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The quiet street was suddenly filled with the flashing lights of emergency vehicles as paramedics worked to save him.

Rushed to North Memorial Medical Center, Turner fought for his ...