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CINCINNATI, OHIO
Late on the night of Friday, April 6, 2001, so late it was already well into Saturday morning, a young man named Timothy Thomas went out for a pack of cigarettes in a near-downtown Cincinnati neighborhood known as Over-the-Rhine. Thomas lived a few miles away, with his mother, stepfather, younger sister, and other members of their extended family, but he spent weekends in Over-the-Rhine because his girlfriend, Monique Wilcox, and their three-month-old son, Tywon, shared a two-bedroom apartment with her mother and her sister on Republic Street, a characteristically dismal-looking block in a once gloriously vibrant part of town. Heading back from ...