On December 19, 1995, the holiday rush was building in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx, where Little Chester Shoes sat busy on White Plains Road near the Bronx Zoo. Inside, Maria Carrasquillo, a 38-year-old woman, was shopping with her two sons when the ordinary noise of customers and clerks was shattered by a gunman who had come in under the pretense of looking for a particular kind of footwear.
Investigators said the man had been in the store before, appearing to ask about a spe
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