Michael Beatty, 42, a Black man from Knoxville, Tennessee, was found dead after deputies were called to an apartment at 406 Dry Gap Pike on August 11, 2020. Investigators said he had been shot, and the scene quickly filled with patrol units as the case shifted from a welfare call to a homicide investigation. As word spread through North Knox County, officials asked anyone who knew what happened—any neighbor who heard an argument, any friend who noticed something off in the hours before—to co
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