Malik Stubbs and his mother Anna at their home in Buffalo Friday, July 15, 2022.
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Judy Thomas and her grandson John Wesley before they went into the Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo on Friday, July 15, 2022.
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Malik Stubbs talks through his emotions after walking through the newly renovated Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo. (Mark Mulville/Buffalo News)
By Mark Mulville
In May, Malik Stubbs stood beyond a fence as he and other members of the Breaking Barriers program, which operates under the umbrella of Say Yes Buffalo, paid their first visit to the memorials outside a Tops Markets where 10 people were murdered.
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Malik Stubbs walks from his mother's apartment to the Tops on Jefferson Avenue for the first time since the store reopened. (Mark Mulville/Buffalo News)
Two years ago, Anna Smith moved to the People Inc. Jefferson Avenue Apartments, a residential complex so new it still has that crisp just-built smell. The place was designed to make life easier for those with disabilities, but one of the benefits Smith loved was coincidental.
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Malik Stubbs talks through his emotions after walking through the newly renovated Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo. (Mark Mulville/Buffalo News)
In May, Malik Stubbs stood beyond a fence as he and other members of the Breaking Barriers program, which operates under the umbrella of Say Yes Buffalo, paid their first visit to the memorials outside a Tops Markets where 10 people were murdered.
Malik Stubbs walks from his mother's apartment to the Tops on Jefferson Avenue for the first time since the store reopened. (Mark Mulville/Buffalo News)
