Marico Charles

Marico Charles was 27, a Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, when his life was taken. The exact date of his death isn’t included in the information provided, but the absence of that detail doesn’t make the loss any smaller. It simply leaves a blank space where a day on the calendar should be, the kind of empty space that families carry with them—quiet, persistent, and impossible to fill.

He was a young adult, still in that stretch of life where so much is supposed to be ahead. Whatev ...