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Police in SW Michigan taking new look at teen s 91 death
May 25, 2021
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ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) Police in southwestern Michigan say they are following up on a tip in the 1991 death of a Black teenager who drowned in the St. Joseph River.
The death of Eric McGinnis raised racial tensions between Benton Harbor, which is mostly Black, and St. Joseph, which is mostly white, and was the subject of a 1998 book by Alex Kotlowitz.
Steve Neubecker, director of the St. Joseph Public Safety Department, said the case was reopened in late April based on information received from Brian Conybeare, a reporter at ABC57 in South Bend, Indiana. ....

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