Roy Cornelious

In the winter of 2018, the life of Roy Cornelious, a 40-year-old man from Memphis, Tennessee, was cut short. He passed away on the first of December of that year, a fact recorded in an obituary that offered few other details about the circumstances leading to his death. His passing left a void in the lives of those who knew him, a community that remembered him fondly.

In the time that has passed since that day, a narrative of his death has been hard to construct from publicly available in ...