Perseus Salichs, a 33-year-old man, stepped out into the cold just before dawn on December 19, 2017, after a late night at the Tonic Bar off Seventh Avenue near Times Square. The bar had been letting out, the sidewalk filling with the last surge of holiday-party energy—friends lingering, strangers brushing past each other, the city still loud even at that hour.
Outside, what should have been an ordinary moment turned jagged. Witness accounts and investigators’ early summaries describ
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