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Shakim Rivera

Case from Brooklyn, NY dated Feb 22, 2015

Victim Details

Shakim Rivera

Male

Black / African American

Brooklyn

NY

2015-02-22

27

Shakim

Rivera

07/10/2026

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On the evening of February 22, 2015, a 27-year-old man named Shakim Rivera was found unconscious on Bayview Place near Remsen Avenue in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. He had been shot in the head. Emergency medical services rushed him to Brookdale Hospital, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.

At the time, Rivera was the leader of the Cypress Gangsta Crips, a subset of the larger Eight Trey Crips gang based in the Cypress Hills Houses of East New York. His death was not a random ...
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  • New York Post: Daily Blotter
  • NY Daily News: Man found fatally shot in head on Brooklyn street: cops
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