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Mingo Mason

Case from Manhattan, NY dated Dec 14, 2017

Victim Details

Mingo Mason

Male

Black / African American

Manhattan

NY

2017-12-14

49

Mingo

Mason

07/07/2026

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Mingo Mason, a 49-year-old Black man, was inside the La Paloma Candy Store and Grocery on Lexington Avenue in East Harlem on the evening of December 14, 2017. He was engaged in a dispute with two other individuals when another man entered the establishment. That man, later identified as 45-year-old Anthony Pinkston of the Bronx, fired a single shot that struck Mason in the back of the head.

The shooting, captured on the store's surveillance cameras, showed Pinkston walking into the bodega ...
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  • NY Daily News: Bronx man nabbed in fatal shooting of East Harlem bodega customer
  • NY Daily News: Killer walks into East Harlem bodega, blasts man in head
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