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Nicolas Vargas Jr.

Case from Bronx, NY dated Aug 31, 2018

Victim Details

Nicolas Vargas Jr.

Male

Black / African American

Bronx

NY

2018-08-31

22

Nicolas

Vargas Jr.

07/26/2026

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Nicolas Vargas Jr., a 22-year-old Black male, was killed on August 31, 2018, in a burst of violence near an IHOP around 232nd Street in the Bronx, a place that should have been just another late-night corner in the city but instead became the setting for his final moments. According to federal prosecutors, he was shot in the head in an attack that later came to be tied not simply to a single street confrontation, but to the much larger world of gang violence that had been spilling across neighbo ...
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  • nydailynews.com: Caught! Police bag 'staredown' killer who shot young father of two in the Bronx - NY Daily News
  • ABC7 New York: Man fatally shot in head outside IHOP in Bronx
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