In the early hours of a summer Friday in Manhattan, the life of 22-year-old Hispanic male Michael Rodriguez was tragically cut short. On June 3, 2016, in a violent encounter outside the Lillian Wald Houses in the Alphabet City neighborhood, Rodriguez was fatally shot. The suddenness of the act sent ripples of shock and grief through the community, leaving friends and family to mourn the loss of a young man in the prime of his life. The targeted nature of the attack suggested a deliberate act of
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