In the summer of 2016, a long-running drug enterprise in the Bronx culminated in the death of 46-year-old Jerome Jemison. On August 11th, in the middle of the day, Jemison was fatally shot in the back of the head on the third-floor landing of an apartment building at 868 Faile Street in the Hunts Point neighborhood. The act was not a random burst of violence, but rather the grim resolution of a drug debt.
For years, the building where Jemison lost his life had been the epicenter of a crac
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