Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson, 28, a Black man from Buffalo, New York, died after a burst of gun violence that was already scarring the city that spring. On May 7, 2012, he was shot multiple times in the head and upper body near the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and East North Street, another life taken in a stretch of weeks when homicides piled up faster than answers.

In the days that followed, the killing sat alongside other shootings that had residents rattled and investigators scrambling, with po ...

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