Broad-daylight Tompkins Square Park shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 injured
Two men were shot, one fatally, at New York City's popular Tompkins Square Park in the East Village Friday morning.
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Two men were shot, one fatally, at New York City's popular Tompkins Square Park in the East Village Friday morning.
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