On a Sunday evening in East Harlem, a dispute outside a grocery store on East 116th Street shattered the neighborhood's calm and ended the life of 29-year-old Elias Castillo. It was September 18, 2022, at approximately 7:38 p.m., when the verbal altercation escalated, and a firearm was discharged. Castillo, a resident of the neighborhood living just a few blocks away on First Avenue, was struck in the abdomen by a single bullet.
Emergency services were quickly on the scene, and Castillo w
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