Frank Mercado, a 29-year-old Hispanic/Latino man from Brooklyn, New York, died on December 20, 1996, his name preserved online as one of the lives cut short by gun violence. The entry is spare on the details that usually surround a death—no street corner, no neighborhood cross streets, no rundown of who was with him in his final hours—only the stark pairing of a date and a borough, enough to place him in time and to suggest the suddenness of what happened.
In the years since, the mem
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