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6-year-old stabbed in elevator remembered 1 year later

One year ago Monday, 6-year-old Prince Joshua "PJ" Avitto was stabbed to death in an elevator at an apartment housing unit in East New York. According to police, Avitto and his friend Mikayla Capers

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