In what began as a routine investigation into a brutal stabbing, a 27-year-old Black man, Leonard A. Morris, was shot and killed by police in his Southeast Roanoke home in early March of 1991. The events leading to the fatal confrontation started when a woman was found barefoot, partially clothed, and bleeding profusely from as many as 30 stab wounds in a parking lot, just two blocks from Morris's residence. Before being taken to the hospital, the victim was able to name her attacker, leading po
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