In the quiet, early hours of a Saturday morning, the stillness on Central Avenue in Orange, New Jersey was broken by the sound of gunfire. On November 9, 2019, Shakur L. Cole, a 35-year-old Black male from Newark, found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just before 1 a.m., police responded to a call of a person shot and discovered Cole inside a vehicle, unresponsive. He had been fatally wounded and was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.
The investigation that followed
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