Charles Coleman Jr., a 32-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, died on January 21, 2017, after gunfire tore through a Westwood neighborhood street in the middle of the afternoon. Online memorial and obituary records for the death list his name as Charles Coleman Jr. and place the loss in Memphis on that date, marking a life ended suddenly and publicly, with the kind of finality that turns an ordinary day into a before-and-after for everyone nearby.
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