EIGHT YEARS AFTER POLICE FATALLY SHOT A BLACK TEENAGER, RENEWED CALLS FOR AN INVESTIGATION. Malcolm Gracia was walking to a store with a friend on a May night in 2012 when he briefly stopped at a (park). Sergeant Bryan Safiolea [head of the New Bedford Police gang unit] .dispatched plainclothes detectives to the park… In a matter of minutes, Gracia was dead.