On a summer evening in the Bronx, what began as a joyous family outing to a Father's Day basketball tournament ended in tragedy for 25-year-old Jelani Green. On June 19, 2022, Green was at the Half Nelson Playground in the Morris Heights neighborhood to watch her brother play. As the game concluded, a single gunshot echoed through the park. Green was struck in the neck by a stray bullet, an unintended victim of what police believe was a dispute between rival gangs.
The gunshot wound was d
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