In the dark, quiet hours just before 4 a.m. on March 29, 2017, Chad Baldeo, a 23-year-old man, stepped out from a night at Club Dubai and into the stretch of Merrick Boulevard in Queens where the streetlights wash the strip-mall parking lots in a pale glare. He was near the corner by Merrick Boulevard and the nearby side streets when a car rolled up close enough to erase any doubt that it wasn’t just passing through.
What happened next unfolded in seconds. Police said a passenger got o
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