On a mild Thursday night in early November 2011, Keandre Ellis, a 26-year-old African-American man, was spending the evening with his younger brother, Timothy McDowell, in a modest upstairs apartment in midtown Tulsa, just off 10th Street and St. Louis Avenue. The building at 1006 South Saint Louis Avenue was the kind of multi-unit place people passed every day without really seeing, its lights glowing softly against the fall darkness as traffic drifted by on nearby streets. Inside, the brothers
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