Tapia, who was Black and Latino, died on Jan. 19, 2021, after being run over by a white man, Dean Kapsalis, who allegedly yelled a racial slur before running over him with his pickup truck.
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Dean Kapsalis was convicted last May of second-degree murder. In January 2021, he ran over Henry Tapia with his car in what prosecutors have called “a racially motivated murder."