Victor LaGromba, a 36-year-old man from New York City, was killed in Harlem in September 1986, a season when the city’s streets and stairwells could turn suddenly, brutally quiet. Accounts place the shooting on West 156th Street, where he was struck down in a burst of gunfire that left little behind except questions and a name that would later be spoken in courtrooms more than once.
In the version of events prosecutors would later lay out, the killing unfolded as a robbery in progress:
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