In the early hours of a summer morning in Brooklyn, the life of Dawuand Darrien, a 29-year-old Black man, was tragically cut short. On August 12, 2023, at approximately 2:45 a.m., Darrien was fatally shot in the chest in the lobby of the Vernon Houses, a NYCHA apartment building on Vernon Avenue near Marcus Garvey Boulevard in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. First responders rushed him to a nearby hospital, but his injuries proved too severe, and he was pronounced dead. A father of two and
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