Walter Jay Charlton was a 46-year-old man living in Detroit, Michigan, when his life was cut short by gunfire on March 13, 1968. Memorial records that preserve only the barest outline of his story describe him as having been “lost to gun violence” in the city that day, his name now appearing among thousands of others whose deaths are cataloged in online tributes to victims of shootings in the United States.
The fragmentary public record indicates that Charlton died in what is identif
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