On Palm Sunday, April 15, 1984, a quiet home on Liberty Avenue in East New York turned into a scene so brutal that even seasoned officers struggled to describe it. Eddie Lopez, a 7-year-old Hispanic/Latino boy, was inside that Brooklyn house with relatives and neighborhood children when a gunman came in close, firing again and again at point-blank range. When police arrived, they found the victims positioned as if life had been interrupted mid-breath—some seated or reclined as though watching
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