Quinell Stepney, a 23-year-old Black man from Syracuse, New York, was shot on the night of August 22, 2021, on the city’s North Side. Police were called to the 500 block of Turtle Street at about 8:45–8:47 p.m., and they found him with a gunshot wound to the head. He was rushed to Upstate University Hospital, but he did not survive.
In the immediate aftermath, the details that reached the public were spare and stark: an ordinary Sunday night, a quick burst of violence, then the whir
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