Wendell Alexander

Wendell Alexander, a 26-year-old Black man, was living in Tulsa, Oklahoma when a November 2009 confrontation inside a modest residence turned suddenly and irrevocably violent. What began as a domestic dispute between him and the mother of his child escalated into a physical assault, the argument tightening into a moment where fear, anger, and split-second decisions would decide whether anyone walked away. In the struggle that followed, she grabbed a knife and drove it into his chest, puncturing ...