The 18-year-old killed by police bullets in the Bronx on February 2 was the third young victim of New York City cops in the space of one week.
Ramarley Graham was shot and killed in his own apartment, after members of the Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit pursued him on the basis of a false report that he was armed. The police busted into the second floor apartment on East 229th Street where he lived with his family. The Wakefield section of the Bronx, just south of Mount Vernon in suburban Westchester County, has a large West Indian population, and Ramarley’s family came from Jamaica.
He was shot at close range in the chest after he had run into his bathroom. Fatally wounded in the lung and aorta, he was pronounced dead at Montefiore Hospital. Police later reported finding a bag of marijuana in the bathroom, suggesting that he was trying to dispose of it. Graham was unarmed. Full story...
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Ramarley Graham was shot and killed in his own apartment, after members of the Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit pursued him on the basis of a false report that he was armed. The police busted into the second floor apartment on East 229th Street where he lived with his family. The Wakefield section of the Bronx, just south of Mount Vernon in suburban Westchester County, has a large West Indian population, and Ramarley’s family came from Jamaica.
He was shot at close range in the chest after he had run into his bathroom. Fatally wounded in the lung and aorta, he was pronounced dead at Montefiore Hospital. Police later reported finding a bag of marijuana in the bathroom, suggesting that he was trying to dispose of it. Graham was unarmed. Full story...
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