On a tragic Wednesday afternoon, August 19, 2020, the life of 18-year-old Malcolm Amede was cut short in a burst of gunfire. Of Trinidadian descent, the young man had recently celebrated the birth of his son just two weeks prior. Amede was walking near the corner of Woodruff Avenue and Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn, close to Prospect Park, when violence erupted around 3:30 p.m. He was reportedly on his way to a vigil for another victim of gun violence, Paul Pinkney, who had been killed in the same ar
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