Keith Leroy Daniel II, a 29-year-old male from Gary, Indiana, was killed on July 19, 2020, after gunfire erupted near 6th Avenue and Maryland Street. Police responding to a shots-fired call found him face-down at the scene and rushed him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead; authorities ruled the death a homicide.
In the days that followed, his name settled into two different kinds of records at once: the public language of a violent death and the intimate language of family loss.
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