Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism

Brooklyn residents squeezed into a packed room at Make the Road by Walking in Bushwick. It was April 4th, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination more than four decades ago. Appropriately, the forum was on hate crimes but the gathering was organized to another violent death– of the Ecuadorean immigrant Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay.

Sucuzhanay was bludgeoned by a metal bat by one of four men who jumped out of an SUV. He later died in Elmurst Hospital in Queens. He had been walking down Bushwick Avenue late at night with his brother. The men screamed racist and homophobic slurs at both Sucuzhanays.