Joseph Lamar Robertson was 18, a Black male from St. Louis, Missouri, when his life was cut short in a homicide that left more questions than answers for the people who knew him. Online, the paper trail of what happened is unexpectedly thin: the kind of silence that can make a tragedy feel like it happened in the dark, even if it happened in a neighborhood where everyone hears everything.
What can be said with confidence is that his death has been treated publicly as a killing rather than
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