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Family Of Eddie Irizarry, Man Fatally Shot By Philadelphia Police, Says Past Year Has Been Gut-Wrenching

"He was always smiling. A smile that we are never going to see again," Zoraida Garcia, Irizarry's aunt, said.

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August 15, 2024

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The family of Eddie Irizarry released balloons into the air one year after he was killed during a traffic stop along Willard Street in Philadelphia's Kensington section.

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They gathered at Magnolia Cemetery in the Tacony section of the city where he is buried and said they miss him terribly.

"He was always smiling. A smile that we are never going to see again," Zoraida Garcia, Irizarry's aunt, said.

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