
Their Brooklyn neighborhood felt like a safe haven in a big city. Tuesday's subway attack changed that
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Tuesday's mass shooting is the kind of violence residents of the tightknit Sunset Park community are used to hearing about in other neighborhoods. Not here, not so close to their haven where they call everyone "family."
Not so strange for a New Yorker, perhaps, but unheard of in his neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, far off the tourist path. The 20-year-old could make out the sounds of sirens on the street, helicopters overhead. When he stepped outside his front door, he found himself in the middle of unexpected chaos.
Acevedo lives across the street from the 36th street subway station where, just hours earlier, a gunman opened two smoke grenades and fired at least 33 shots at commuters, striking 10 people.
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