Etienne Burns, 14, a Black male, was shot and killed in Omaha, Nebraska, on September 24, 2011. News coverage from that time marked the date plainly: he was gunned down in North Omaha during a violent stretch that left multiple people dead or wounded within roughly a day. He was a Burke High School student, remembered by name in obituaries and remembrances shared in the days that followed.
The killing landed amid simmering tensions among teens; later reporting recalled that Etienne and a
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