Julius Denzemore, 40, a Black man from East St. Louis, Illinois, died on June 12, 2025. His name was added to public remembrances of lives lost to gun violence that day, marking the date and the city where he was killed. The notice is spare, but it fixes the essentials: his identity, his age, and the place where his life ended.
In the days that followed, loved ones formalized their grief with an obituary that set his birth and death dates side by side—May 12, 1985 to June 12, 2025—an
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