In the late afternoon of September 14, 2022, a burst of gunfire shattered the ordinary scene at a McDonald's on Peninsula Boulevard in Hempstead, New York. When the chaos subsided, 19-year-old Hector Manuel Valencia Gomez, a male graduate of Hempstead High School, was found in the parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene in what was described as a brazen shooting in broad daylight, occurring just as local schools were dismissing for the day. While police beli
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