In the early morning hours of August 17, 2025, the downtown streets of New Haven, Connecticut, were filled with the usual weekend sounds of a city winding down. For 18-year-old Dillon Cornelius, a Black/African American male from West Haven, this night would be his last. At approximately 2:52 a.m., the relative peace on College Street, between Crown and Chapel Streets, was shattered by the sound of gunfire. New Haven police officers, who were on patrol near the downtown bars, heard the shots and
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