Demetrius Alexander, a 21-year-old African-American male, was shot and killed on September 11, 2008, in Chicago, Illinois.
Available accounts place his death amid a wider surge of gun violence that year, when many neighborhoods were contending with poverty, gangs, and the easy availability of firearms.
The public case write-up identifies his name, age, gender, ethnicity, city, state, and date of death, and characterizes the manner of death as by gunfire.
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