Venias Lavelle Beard

In the late summer of 2015, a wave of violence was washing over Flint, Michigan, a city already struggling with numerous challenges. It was during this turbulent time that the life of Venias Lavelle Beard, a 29-year-old Black male, was cut short. On Sunday, September 6, 2015, Beard passed away at Hurley Medical Center, his death marking another grim statistic in a year of escalating homicides in the city. The circumstances of his passing were determined to be a homicide, a violent end to a young ...

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