On June 27, 2014, Angel Carrion, 28, was fatally shot in the chest outside a residence at 1231 Main Street in the Mont Pleasant neighborhood of Schenectady shortly after 1:30 a.m. Emergency responders reached the scene, but Carrion died of his wounds. That shooting was the city’s first homicide of 2014.

Investigators tied the killing to a bitter, ongoing feud linked to the Latin Kings. Hours before the fatal encounter an associate of Carrion’s attacked another gang member, escalating the conflict. City surveillance showed Hector Abreu, then 23, and an accomplice riding bicycles toward Carrion’s neighborhood. Abreu first tried to shoot Carrion at Main and Ostrander streets but the gun failed to fire; he later ambushed Carrion on his front porch and shot him three times before fleeing.

Abreu was arrested on unrelated October 2014 charges and, while jailed, was charged in February 2017 with Carrion’s murder. At a September 2017 trial the jury convicted Abreu of second-degree murder, attempted assault, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, while acquitting him of attempted murder for the initial failed shot; prosecutors said witnesses faced intimidation. Did anyone who knew Angel or the neighborhood see signs the feud was about to turn deadly?