In the late hours of a Wednesday in New Haven, Connecticut, the life of Lawrence Allen Atkins, a 35-year-old Black / African American male, was cut short. On August 5, 2015, police responded to reports of gunshots in the vicinity of Bouchet Lane and Eastern Street. There, they discovered Atkins with a single gunshot wound to his shoulder. He was urgently transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital, but his injury proved fatal, and he was pronounced dead later that evening. At the time he was found, A
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