On a warm summer night in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the life of 37-year-old Savonnie Vahnnie McNeil, a Black male, was tragically cut short. On June 11, 2015, McNeil was at the Trumbull Gardens housing project, a place where he had grown up, spending time with friends in a parking lot. The familiar surroundings of his old neighborhood were shattered when a sudden and brutal ambush erupted in a hail of gunfire. At least two gunmen unleashed more than 50 rounds into the crowd, creating a scene of c
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