In the summer of 2019, a joyous block party in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh took a tragic turn, ending in the death of 36-year-old Calvin Hall, an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer. On the night of July 14th, Hall was attending the gathering on Monticello Street when a dispute arose. Witnesses later described how Hall, attempting to act as a peacemaker, stepped in to de-escalate the increasingly heated situation. It was in this moment of trying to calm tensions that he was shot three
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