On the night of April 1, 2007, Julio Jose Varnell, a 16-year-old Black male from Oklahoma City, was walking down a city street sometime around 10 p.m., moving through the quiet of a Sunday evening that marked the end of an ordinary weekend for many and the end of everything for him. The details that survive in public records do not paint a full picture of his personality, his dreams, or what had brought him out on foot that night, but they do trace the stark outline of the violence that found hi
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