Nicolas Vargas Jr., a 22-year-old Black male, was killed on August 31, 2018, in a burst of violence near an IHOP around 232nd Street in the Bronx, a place that should have been just another late-night corner in the city but instead became the setting for his final moments. According to federal prosecutors, he was shot in the head in an attack that later came to be tied not simply to a single street confrontation, but to the much larger world of gang violence that had been spilling across neighbo
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