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The shooting comes months after an imam at the Omar Mosque in Paterson, about 15 miles north of Newark, was stabbed while leading prayers. The suspect, Serif Zorba, was arrested on several charges ...
"Our hearts are broken," Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said in a statement. Essex County Crime Stoppers is offering a $25,000 reward for anyone with information about the shooting.
A former Marine from New Jersey was arrested Friday and accused of threatening to kill white people and carry out a mass shooting, federal prosecutors said Monday. Joshua Cobb, 23, of Trenton ...
Murder victim. Sakia Gunn (May 26, 1987 – May 11, 2003) was a 15-year-old African American lesbian who was murdered in what has been deemed a hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. Richard McCullough, was charged with her death and sentenced to 20 years in prison. [1] In 2008 a documentary was released about Gunn's murder, titled Dreams Deferred ...
New Jersey executed a total of 361 people from its inception to the abolition of the death penalty on December 17, 2007. [1] The first person executed was a slave known to history only as Tom for a rape in 1690. The last execution was of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century. [2]
On December 10, 2019, a shooting took place at a kosher grocery store in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey. Three people were killed at the store by two assailants, David N. Anderson and Francine Graham. The assailants also wounded one customer and two police officers before being killed by police during an ensuing shootout.
1,465. The 1967 Newark riots were an episode of violent, armed conflict in the streets of Newark, New Jersey. Taking place over a four-day period (between July 12 and July 17, 1967), the Newark riots resulted in at least 26 deaths and hundreds more serious injuries. Serious property damage, including shattered storefronts and fires caused by ...
April 5, 2024 at 1:16 PM. NEWARK, NJ - Emergency responders are assessing the damage in the aftermath of a 4.8-magnitude earthquake shook the Tri-State area Friday morning. There were reports of ...