Sean Matthews

Sean Matthews, a 21-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, was killed in a homicide, leaving behind a sudden silence where a life had been. The details of what happened in his final moments have not been widely preserved in the kinds of public-facing summaries that often follow high-profile cases, and that absence can be its own kind of cruelty—an empty space where the story should be, where the “why” should live.

In Memphis, unsolved homicides are reviewed by the Memphis Polic ...