Harold Phillips was a 22-year-old Black man when his life ended in New York City on October 3, 1976. Inside his own apartment at 27 East 124th Street, the violence was blunt and intimate: he was beaten to death with a hammer, the kind of killing that leaves a room feeling less like a home and more like a crime scene that can�t be tidied away.
In the city outside, life kept moving, but the case did not immediately find its footing. The killing sat among other unsolved murders of young men
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