Jeffrey Roy Williams

Jeffrey Roy Williams, a 50-year-old Black man from St. Louis, Missouri, was killed by gunfire on March 8, 2016.

That night ended with his death being classified as a homicide, with the publicly available reporting tying the killing to St. Louis’ Mark Twain neighborhood. The details that made it into public view are stark and spare: a life cut short by a gunshot wound, with the rest of the story—how the violence began, what moments led up to it, and what was said or done in the second ...