In the winter of 2015, on the evening of February 16th, a young man's life was cut short on the streets of Schenectady, New York. Carlos Figueroa, a 26-year-old male, was fatally shot in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood. The incident, which marked the city's first homicide of the year, was not a random act of violence but the tragic culmination of a drug deal gone wrong. Figueroa, a father of two young daughters, was a lifelong resident of the area and worked in construction. He had recently celeb
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