In the early hours of February 22, 2020, a call pulled Detroit police to the 20 block of Minnesota Street, near John R, where a vacant building sat dark and quiet. In a back room, officers found Eugene Jennings, 36, a Black male, dead from a gunshot wound—another life ended behind boarded-up walls, in a place that looked forgotten until it became a crime scene.
As daylight spread across the neighborhood, the details that surfaced were sparse but heavy: the discovery time, the vacant st
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