Ricardo Oneil Kirlew, a 26-year-old Black male from Newark, New Jersey, stepped into the late autumn night of November 10, 2020, unaware that his life would end along a desolate stretch of roadway near Interstate 78. Sometime before midnight, in the industrial quiet of Frontage Road, gunfire shattered the stillness. When help was finally called in, the situation was described as a simple pedestrian strike, the kind of tragic but mundane emergency that first responders confront all too often.
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