Murder of Nathaniel Levi Gaines

Biography

Nathaniel Levi Gaines (1971 – July 4, 1996) was an African-American resident of Yonkers, New York who was fatally shot by a New York City Transit Police officer (a division of the New York City Police Department). The officer, Paolo Colecchia, was convicted of second-degree manslaughter—only the third successful homicide prosecution of a police officer in the city since 1977. Gaines was a veteran of service in the Persian Gulf War, and had no criminal record, nor any history of encounters with police or law enforcement agencies.

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