In the cold of a February evening in Bridgeport, Connecticut, a dispute over a small wager escalated into a fatal encounter for 28-year-old Javoni Patton. On February 11, 2016, Patton, a Black male, was found shot multiple times near the intersection of Stratford and Connecticut avenues. The first homicide of the year in the city, the event unfolded around 8:40 p.m. when police and medics responded to calls of gunfire. They discovered Patton, who had stumbled out of his car and collapsed in the
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