In the late summer evening of August 30, 2019, a burst of gunfire shattered the peace on a street in Ridgewood, Queens. When police arrived at the scene on 60th Street near Metropolitan Avenue around 10:52 p.m., they found 23-year-old Alexander Pedraja lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his back. The young man was just across the street from his own home. Paramedics rushed him to Elmhurst Hospital, but his life could not be saved.
The investigation that followed painted a grim pi
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