On a Thursday afternoon in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on January 22, 2015, the life of 36-year-old Javon Brown was tragically cut short. A Black / African American male from the nearby town of Dartmouth, Brown was fatally shot in an act of gun violence that marked the city's first homicide of the year. The incident unfolded outside the Metro PCS cell phone store located at the corner of Coggeshall Street and Belleville Avenue. Brown was transported to St. Luke's Hospital, where he was pronounce
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