On a summer evening in Newark, New Jersey, seventeen-year-old Melvin 'Rickey' Pittman was with four of his friends: Randy Johnson, Michael McDowell, Ernest Taylor, and Alvin Turner. The five teenagers had spent part of the day playing basketball at West Side Park. Later, they were seen together in a pickup truck driven by a local carpenter who sometimes hired them for odd jobs. The driver, Lee Anthony Evans, would later tell authorities that he dropped the boys off around 11:00 p.m. From that po
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