Anthony Johnson, a 34-year-old Black man, died on April 23, 2013, after a homicide reported on Parkdale Avenue on Buffalo’s West Side, in the 14213 ZIP code. In the records that track Buffalo’s unresolved killings, his death is logged simply and starkly: a murder with no named assailant, no public narrative of what led up to the violence, and no clear trail left behind for the public to follow—only the place, the date, and the fact that a life ended there.
In the aftermath, the cas
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