In the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, on the evening of January 16, 2018, the life of a 33-year-old Black man named Melvin Batties was tragically cut short. Just before 7:10 p.m., in the courtyard of the Sedgwick Houses on West 174th Street, a single gunshot to the neck left Batties unresponsive. He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, but his injuries proved fatal, and he was pronounced dead.
Batties, an aspiring musician from Brooklyn, was known to frequent the Sedgwick Houses to
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