Gabriel Montes Jr, 18, male, Hispanic/Latino, was killed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 15, 2020. That Friday bled into night with the kind of quiet that makes every sound feel amplified—sirens knitting their way through neighborhoods east of the university, porch lights flicking on, people peering out from behind curtains. Word traveled first in fragments, then in a name: a teenager whose life had been clipped short by gunfire. An online memorial would later fix the essentials in place—
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