Orlando Jo’Shaun Smith, sometimes recorded as “Olando” in police and case databases, was a 21-year-old Black male from Oklahoma City whose life ended on a Sunday afternoon in mid-October 2012. He had been living in the northwest part of the city, not far from the Putnam Green Apartments, a sprawling complex tucked near the busy corridors of Wilshire Boulevard and the Northwest Expressway. That ordinary fall day, October 14, 2012, became the moment his name joined the city’s grim tally of
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