Emmanuel Thomas, a 30-year-old Black man from Buffalo, New York, was killed on the night of September 23, 1980, after a stranger closed in on him on the city�s East Side and fired at his head before fleeing into the darkness. Reports from the period described the attack as sudden and intimate�no argument, no warning�just a quick approach, shots, and a retreat that left Thomas dying near the place he was headed.
His death landed in a terrifying sequence that unfolded over roughly a day, w
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