Alvaro DeLeon, a 34-year-old Hispanic / Latino man, spent the evening of November 21, 2009, at a Tulsa-area home where friends and family had gathered for a cookout, a familiar kind of weekend get-together in a year when the city was already struggling with a rising tide of homicides. As the night went on, what began as a social gathering shifted into tension when an argument broke out between DeLeon and 18-year-old Pedro Gaeta. Witnesses later described the confrontation as a domestic dispute t
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