Police started looking for a male suspect in the area following an altercation at a Walmart in Salem, Massachusetts, on Sunday, when they learned the incident possibly contained an air gun and BBs.
As a result of his passing, a bipartisan movement has started to amend the state's 158-year-old citizen's arrest statute. However, an unknown trial awaits.
Authorities do not foresee filing hate crime charges against the 23-year-old man accused of randomly assaulting an Asian stranger on a Lower Manhattan street