In the spring of 2018, a young Black man named Valentin Cruz, who was 20 years old, lost his life in a burst of gunfire on a street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. On the afternoon of May 23rd, what began as a heated argument quickly spiraled into a deadly confrontation. Cruz, in the company of two friends, had arrived on Hewes Street near South Third Street in a van. They emerged to confront two other young men, 21-year-old Bruce Arroyo and 19-year-old Jason Ortiz. The tension between the groups, wh
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