Decarlos Cole was a 25-year-old Black man whose life ended in violence on October 10, 2012, in St. Louis, Missouri, in the Walnut Park area of north city. In the days that followed, the loss was spoken about in the blunt, weary language of a neighborhood that had already seen too much—an area locals sometimes grimly nickname “MurderVille,” not as a slogan, but as a tired shorthand for how often grief arrives uninvited.
A local report framed his death as part of the city’s running
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