In the turbulent summer of 1967, amidst the chaos of the Detroit Uprising, a 30-year-old African American man named John LeRoy lost his life in a hail of gunfire. On the night of July 24th, LeRoy was a passenger in a station wagon with four other men, including the driver Charles Dunson and his step-brother Ronald Powell. They were trying to get Powell home to his pregnant wife, who was due to give birth at any moment.
Their journey took them through a city under curfew and teeming with p
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