Tony Burgess, a 24-year-old resident of the Bronx, New York, tragically lost his life on March 16, 2014. The incident occurred after Burgess confronted a group of young men who had been mocking his mother, Verbena Burgess, for singing outside their home on Morris Avenue. The situation escalated when the group, led by 19-year-old Daquan Lanier, began hurling insults at Verbena. In defense of his mother, Tony and his brothers engaged in a physical altercation with the group, which initially disper
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