NEW YORK TIMES: Outside the [Bronx] courtroom, the children of the murdered man waited with their mother. It had taken five years for the Bronx courts to get around to them and to the man with teardrop tattoos charged with killing their father.
The death of Robert Gaston on a bloody bodega floor was one of those murders New York barely notices. The family’s grief had given way to an agonizing wait for what they called their day in court. Two years. Four. Five, as bloodstains and memories faded.
“It should never take five years,” 15-year-old Kaitlynn Gaston said. “All the good parts of New York, the high-class parts of New York, they easily get justice.”… (more)
