Miguel DeJesus Jr., age 18

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Lost to gun violence on November 4, 1993 in New Britain, Connecticut.

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Newspapers.com: Miguel DeJesus, New Britain High, 1993
Dec 9: Hartford Courant: 30 years later, echoes persist from the murder of a CT high school student

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Instagram: Connecticut Mirror on Instagram: "In the first light of a recent autumn day outside New Britain High School, there was no marker on the spot where Miguel Dejesus fell, mortally wounded, on a very similar school morning some 30 years ago. The events of Nov. 4, 1993, at the front entrance of New Britain High are pre-history to today’s students, even to some of their teachers who were born years after the day a masked man got out of a stolen car and pumped five shots into Miguel, a cherubic and intelligent senior who held a leadership post in the local chapter of the Latin Kings. To those who were there or nearby that day, however, the event is never that far away. The former mayor was recently thinking about it when he dropped his granddaughter off at the school. Multiple former students who were present said they remembered the events of that Thursday morning as if it were yesterday. And Miguel’s mother, who dropped him off at school moments before he was slaughtered, still has the McDonald’s bre
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