On the evening of September 29, 2023, a verbal dispute on the 100 block of Boyce Avenue in Utica, New York, escalated into a fatal encounter. Curtis Henry, a 44-year-old Black / African American male from Verona, New York, became embroiled in an argument with another individual. The disagreement turned violent when the other man, identified as 47-year-old James Beard of Utica, produced a firearm.
Beard shot Henry at least once before fleeing the scene. Emergency services were called, and
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