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Immigrant's killing inspires teen to 'pay forward'

In the wake of the killing of Marcelo Lucero, Kaleigh Nolan wanted to do something.

The seven suspects charged in the death, which authorities have said was a hate killing, were her classmates at Patchogue-Medford High School. The killing sickened her.

So the 17-year-old senior began the "Pay it Forward" project, named after the movie where a little boy does a good deed in hopes that...

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