It was a killing so gruesome, so unusual, so public, that police say it was meant to send a message.

“It was like overkill,” said Detective Vincent Stevenson of the killing last month of Terrance Randolph. “This is a community where no matter what time of day you go around, there are kids outside playing.”

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