On a rainy September evening in 1994, the sounds of children playing 'cops and robbers' echoed through the stairwell of the Gowanus Houses in Brooklyn, New York. Among them was 13-year-old Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr., a bright and promising honor student who dreamed of becoming a doctor or a professional basketball player. The boys were using colorful plastic toy guns, but their innocent game was about to take a tragic and irreversible turn.
That same evening, New York City Housing Author
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