 On Thanksgiving Day 1976, responding to a report of a man with a gun in the Cypress Hills housing projects, Officer Torsney encountered a group of youths.After a brief conversation, Torsney shot one of them, Evans, point-blank in the head.After shooting Evans, Torsney made no effort to check on the boy’s condition
but instead walked to his patrol car, got in, removed the spent cartridge from his weapon, and calmly replaced it with another bullet.