Michael F. Johnson

Michael F. Johnson, 26, male, Black/African American, was killed by gunfire in Omaha, Nebraska, on December 29, 2000. The public record of his death is spare but certain: his name, age, city, and the date he was “lost to gun violence” are preserved on memorial rolls created to remember victims, a stark entry marking the end of a young life at the close of that year. Those pages capture the grief that followed—notes from loved ones, candles lit in his memory—and little else about the mome ...