Darell Bratchett

Darell Bratchett, 27, a Black male, was killed in Milwaukee on November 2, 2012. Public records list his date of birth as March 22, 1985, and confirm his death date; online homicide trackers identify the case as a death by violence. The basic contours of his life that surface online are spare: a young man from Milwaukee whose name appears in death files and cold-case listings without the kind of detail that often accompanies a solved case.

In the years since, his name has continued to su ...