...brutally stabbed to death in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

I read that as "Clown Heights, Brooklyn" and thought it was a little on the nose.

He was also a published poet, who had once written a poem called “Anxiety” about fears over his own death.

Being forcibly "diversified" at 4am while waiting at the Lafayette Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard bus stop was probably not the subject of the poem, but who knows?

...long time campaign organizer Ryan Thoresen Carson died tragically after a random street encounter near his home.

Murder is not a random street encounter, but in NYC it is.

In the past 24 hours, a series of violent crimes have targeted Democrats.

Bit of a reach there GP. Are you sure these crimes were not "random street encounters"?