Gabriel Montes Jr, 18, male, Hispanic/Latino, was killed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 15, 2020. That Friday bled into night with the kind of quiet that makes every sound feel amplified�sirens knitting their way through neighborhoods east of the university, porch lights flicking on, people peering out from behind curtains. Word traveled first in fragments, then in a name: a teenager whose life had been clipped short by gunfire. An online memorial would later fix the essentials in place�his
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