In the brisk autumn of 2008, the life of 27-year-old Antoine Manro Watkins, a Black male, was cut short in Knoxville, Tennessee. On the night of November 23rd, he was discovered in a back bedroom of a house on Selma Avenue, having suffered from multiple gunshot wounds. His death marked another grim statistic in what was a particularly violent period for the city, adding to a string of unsolved violent crimes.
The investigation into Watkins's murder was fraught with challenges from the out
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