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humboldt street, brooklyn. I walked through this street from the party I was at in bushwick to the metropolitan ave subway on new years morning; two hours after I passed this intersection near the borinquen and bushwick houses, a drug addict by the name of shannon mckinney, 34, was shot in the head and killed, the first murder of 2012 in new york city.

police tracked down the killer, a latin king, to the bushwick houses a block away, and the murderer was taken into custody, but not before he delivered one of the arresting officers a bullet to the back of the head, which surprisingly the cop has almost fully recovered from.