Chapter 4Nero Storm was anchoring that morning, five days before Christmas. He no longer worked at WTWN in Westchester. When opportunity arose to become on air talent for a major news outlet in Manhattan, though Nero balked, his friend and former producer, Frasier Bellamy, told him he’d be a fool not to jump at it. Since just before Labor Day 2019, Nero had been the Big Apple station’s roving reporter. Now, when all the well-known anchors were off at noon, or for the four in the morning show, when the big names were just getting out of bed, Nero got to sit behind the desk. “Officials in Boston are branching out, asking for help nationwide,” Nero said toward the camera. “An unidentified man was located on the side of the street near Brookline Avenue last night. He was discovered battered a

