In the late hours of a spring Tuesday in Topeka, Kansas, the life of Mark Edwards, a 37-year-old Black / African American man, was tragically cut short. On April 28, 2020, at approximately 11:25 p.m., the Shawnee County Emergency Communications Center received reports of gunfire in the 1400 block of S.E. 14th Street. Officers arrived to find Mark Edwards with life-threatening injuries from which he would not recover; he was pronounced dead at the scene. This incident marked the sixth homicide in
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