Pedro Cruz

Pedro Cruz, a 33-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, died on October 22, 2012, and what remains online about him reads like a quiet record of a life abruptly ended rather than a full explanation of what happened. The public notice that marks his passing gives his dates, and little else—no long biography, no public retelling of his final days, no official summary that would normally anchor the story of a sudden death in a city as large and complicated as Memphis.

In the days that followed, th ...