Brandi Mells, a 22-year-old Black woman, had built a life in Troy, New York, alongside her partner, Shanta Myers, in a basement apartment in the Lansingburgh section of the city. In the days before Christmas in 2017, something violent and deliberate unfolded behind that door�an attack that investigators would later place on or around December 21, 2017, even though the world outside kept moving as if nothing had changed.
On December 26, 2017, a property manager arrived to check on the hou
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