Kendrick Chapman

In the quiet of a rural Michigan morning on June 25, 2007, a delivery driver arrived at the workshop of Kendrick Chapman in Calvin Township with a load of steel. Instead of the familiar sight of the skilled blacksmith and artist, the driver was met with a scene of tragedy. Thirty-four-year-old Kendrick Lamar Chapman, a Black/African American male, was found deceased on the floor of his workshop on Kessington Road, the victim of a fatal gunshot wound. He lived alone at the property where he also ...

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