On July 8, 2016, in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, Michael Boone Jr., a 35-year-old Black / African American man, was killed by gunfire, a loss that quietly entered the rolls of national gun-violence records and online memorials. His name appears in a database of shooting victims that lists him simply as “lost to gun violence” in Paterson on that date, with no added narrative about the moment his life ended, only a stark acknowledgment that he was taken by a bullet.
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