On a December evening in 2021, Shamar LaQuan James Brown, a 34-year-old Black / African American man from Elizabeth, New Jersey, walked through a neighborhood he knew well, near the intersection of Second Street and Bond Street. Around 8:30 p.m. on December 16, police were called to that corner, where they found Brown suffering from a gunshot wound. Despite efforts to save him, he was pronounced dead at the scene, his life ending on the same city streets where he had lived.
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