On a cold winter night in Brooklyn, the life of 24-year-old Shamel Pancho Harris was cut short by a sudden burst of violence. It was the early hours of January 10, 2021, and Harris, a Black male from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, was at a party in an Airbnb rental on Montauk Avenue in East New York. The gathering, however, was unauthorized by the property owner, a detail that would later be noted in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Inside the residence, the party was underway when sho
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