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Kevin?
Yes.
Allie's here.
Hi, Kevin.
Hey, Ally.
Thanks for participating in our goat rodeo here.
I love this subject.
So happy to do it.
Can you first, can you just sort of introduce yourself and your beat these days?
So I'm Allie Watkins.
I work at the Metro desk at the Times, and my beat is largely the New York City police Department.
But that encompasses a whole lot of things, whether it's crime counterterror, or.
We had a big spike in gang violence once this year in Brooklyn.
So we kind of hop around to all of that.
And this story, the story you're here to talk about, where does it start for you?
So it starts late on the night of March 13 this past year, when I started getting frantic phone calls from my editor around 1130 at night.
And I think when you're on the metro beat and you're covering the police department, you get calls at that time of night and you think either a bridge is blown up or, like, a mob boss is dead.
And it turns out it was the second one in a brazen shooting straight out of a crime drama.
53 year old Francesco Frankie boy Callie was found with multiple gunshots.
Francesco.