In the fall of 2020, a promising life was tragically cut short on a Brooklyn street. Seventeen-year-old Derek Tiucios, a male of Hispanic descent born in the United States to a family from Mexico, was shot and killed on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 28, 2020. A junior at Sunset Park High School, he had dreams of becoming a doctor. Just six days prior to his death, his family had celebrated his seventeenth birthday with a party in front of their Sunset Park home.
On that fateful Wedn
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