Dontea “Ted” Bascom was a 16-year-old African American male from Brooklyn, New York, and on the evening of April 17, 2015, he was sitting outdoors at the Marcy Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant when gunfire suddenly tore through the courtyard. Residents later described hearing a rapid burst of shots, the kind that makes people drop behind windowsills and pull children back from doorways. When it ended, Bascom had been hit in the groin, and his younger cousin, Michael Parnell, had also been struck
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