Stories/Essays: Senseless Streets: mbgang04-01

Jermain Fields, 23, weeps at the edge of his brother's grave in a Raleigh cemetery. Charles E. Henry, 34, better known as 'Picklehead' in the neighborhood, was one of six murder victims Memorial Day Weekend. His mother Gwendolyn Henry says of police: {quote}They saw all those tattoos on him and they knew what that meant. But they still treated his murder like he was a human being. And I appreciated that.{quote}(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)

Jermain Fields, 23, weeps at the edge of his brother's grave in a Raleigh cemetery. Charles E. Henry, 34, better known as 'Picklehead' in the neighborhood, was one of six murder victims Memorial Day Weekend. His mother Gwendolyn Henry says of police: "They saw all those tattoos on him and they knew what that meant. But they still treated his murder like he was a human being. And I appreciated that." 

(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)