Christopher Bailey, 18, Black male, was a Miami Gardens teenager whose life ended on June 2, 2010. Friends knew him as “Beanz,” a nickname that hints at the circles and routines that made up his everyday life before violence interrupted it. After his death he was laid to rest at Southern Memorial Park in Miami-Dade County, a final resting place that anchors his story to a specific corner of the city he called home.
He was murdered in an apartment complex near NW 175th Street and NW 25th Avenue in Miami Gardens. The sparse details that remain paint a scene at the edge of a neighborhood evening, when the hum of traffic and voices gives way to sirens and taped-off walkways. In the days that followed, no clear public account emerged of how the confrontation began or who pulled the trigger, only the quiet aftermath felt by the people who loved him and the block where it happened.
Publicly available information does not show any arrests in the case, and no suspects have been named. If investigators developed leads, those developments have not surfaced in the record that can be found today. What endures is a short ledger of facts—his name, his age, the date, the city, the place he is buried—surrounded by unanswered questions about a young life cut short in an apartment courtyard off 175th and 25th.
