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Police: Man burned to death in Brownsville

Firefighters responding to a blaze Wednesday morning at the Tilden Houses in Brownsville found a man who had been burned to death, police say. Sources in the NYPD say the man, who had also been shot

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Sep 3, 2008, 7:38 PM

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