On the night of September 16, 2014, 21-year-old Juan Carlos Guevara-Martinez, a Hispanic / Latino male, was shot to death in Phoenix, Arizona. What little is preserved in the public record reduces his life to a date, a city, and the stark phrase that he was “lost to gun violence,” a clinical description that masks the suddenness and brutality of what happened to him.
Contemporary reporting linked to his case describes police discovering a gunshot victim already dead in an area of eas
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