Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr., a 13-year-old boy from Brooklyn, New York, tragically lost his life on September 27, 1994. Nicholas was playing a game of cops and robbers with friends in the stairwell of the Gowanus Houses, a public housing complex where he lived. The children were using toy guns with bright orange tips, clearly indicating they were not real firearms. However, Housing Officer Brian George, who was patrolling the area, mistook Nicholas's toy gun for a real weapon. Despite Nicholas d
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