Christopher Wesley Roy, a 32-year-old Black man, died in St. Louis, Missouri, leaving behind a story that is difficult to fully reconstruct from widely accessible public material. What can be said with confidence is that Missouri maintains an official system for recording deaths, with an online death index covering modern decades and a formal process for ordering death certificates through local agencies or the state—meaning the definitive account of his death, including cause and manner, woul
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