Ramarley Graham

How they died

Deadly force

A narcotics unit was staking out a bodega in the Wakefield neighborhood of the Bronx, acting on a tip that drug sales were taking place there. Two officers reported that they had witnessed three men leaving the bodega together and that they had a gun. Officer Haste chased Graham into the family's home and confronted him in a small bathroom. The officer fatally shot and killed Graham, but it later became clear that Graham had been unarmed.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Ramarley Graham, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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