Deandre J Alexander

Death by Force

Black male Deandre J. Alexander, age 22, was fatally shot on January 23, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois.
His death came amid a relentless drumbeat of gunfire that winter, another life cut short in a city struggling to stem violence that often concentrated on young men in disinvested neighborhoods.

Publicly available reports about the shooting are sparse.
What survives online is largely a bare record of the killing, name, age, date, city, without the small but human details that anch ...Read More

Two dead