Zachary Hawthorn was a 55-year-old Black man living in Phoenix, Arizona, whose path through life had taken him from Memphis, Tennessee, to military service and years of hard work before retirement. In memories shared by those who knew him, his name sometimes appears as Hawthorne, a reminder of how people’s stories are preserved in fragments across different records. Loved ones describe a devoted father and grandfather who had one daughter named RaSheena and three grandchildren, a man who once
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