Ivory “Pops” Hawkins, 63, a Black man, vanished from Las Vegas on April 10, 2015, the same day police responded to his residence after reports of gunfire. Inside, officers found 28-year-old Derek Cooper Jr. shot to death; detectives announced they wanted to locate Hawkins for questioning about what had happened that night. In the days that followed, local news carried his name as a person detectives urgently hoped to interview, even as the shock of the shooting rippled through the neighborho
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