On the evening of July 11, 2019, a burst of violence shattered the quiet of a Fitchburg, Massachusetts neighborhood, leaving a young Black/African American man dead. Leon Wilson, a 23-year-old resident of Fitchburg, was shot near the intersection of Blossom Street and Pie Alley at approximately 9 p.m. First responders rushed him to a nearby Leominster hospital, but his injuries proved fatal, and he was pronounced dead. The incident was quickly determined to be a homicide, launching an intensive
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