In the early morning hours of August 9, 2020, a crowded house party in Springfield Gardens, Queens, turned deadly for 25-year-old Jonathan Distant. The Bronx man was fatally shot in the torso following a minor altercation. The party, held in the front yard of a residence on 183rd Street, had over 100 guests, with more waiting to get in.
The tragic chain of events began around 4:30 a.m. as Distant was preparing to leave the gathering. A friend of another partygoer, Devante Richards, bumped
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