Bennett L Combs

Bennett L. Combs, 40, a Black/African American male from St. Louis, Missouri, died on April 28, 2007. In the public record available online, his death is difficult to trace beyond the bare fact that it happened, leaving the story to surface mostly in outlines: a life ended on a spring day, a city that has long carried the weight of gun violence, and an investigation that—at least in what can be found publicly—never received the kind of sustained coverage that pins down the “who” and “w ...