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Randolph Evans

Case from Brooklyn, NY dated Nov 25, 1976

Victim Details

Randolph Evans

Male

Black / African American

Brooklyn

NY

1976-11-25

15

Randolph

Evans

06/27/2026

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On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, a 15-year-old Black male named Randolph Evans was shot and killed in the Cypress Hills housing project in Brooklyn, New York. Evans, a ninth-grade student at Franklin K. Lane High School, was with a group of friends when he was confronted by New York City Police Department officer Robert Torsney. Torsney and his partner were responding to a report of a man with a gun, though the situation was reportedly resolved by the time they arrived. Following a brief ...
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