New legal team for Joey Fama, convicted in racially explosive slaying in Bensonhurst, seeks to reopen case
Sep 07, 2016
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Next week will mark 27 years since one of the most emotionally charged and racially explosive murder cases in New York City history took place.
Joey Fama, then 19, was convicted of fatally shooting Yusuf Hawkins, 16, as part of a predominantly Italian-American group of young men who surrounded Hawkins and three of Hawkins' friends in an episode of mass violence and mistaken identity.
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