On the late morning of August 11, 2021, Tulsa police were called to 8400 South Toledo in a quiet south Tulsa neighborhood after reports of a man lying in the roadway covered in blood. When officers and EMSA arrived, they found 28-year-old Joseph Ervin Brown, a Black man, in the street with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, and detectives quickly marked off the residential block near the busy 81st and Yale corridor as they began treating the case as
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