In the early morning hours of a spring day in Brooklyn, a discovery was made that brought a violent end to a man's life. On March 16, 2019, shortly before 9:30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call behind a New York City Housing Authority building at 474 Marcy Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. There, they found 47-year-old Deshawn Smart, a resident of Red Hook, unconscious and unresponsive. He was lying next to a Citi Bike, having sustained a single, fatal gunshot wound to his torso.
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