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Willie Johnson

Case from Newark, NJ dated Mar 13, 2018

Victim Details

Willie Johnson

Male

Black / African American

Newark

NJ

2018-03-13

34

Willie

Johnson

07/03/2026

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On the morning of March 13, 2018, 34-year-old Willie Jackson, a Black/African American male from Newark, stepped into a day that looked like any other in the city’s West Ward until gunfire shattered the routine on the 100 block of Brookdale Avenue. Neighbors later told reporters they heard shots and then the abrupt, chilling silence that follows violence; when Newark police arrived shortly before 9 a.m., they found Jackson lying in a driveway, unresponsive and bleeding from gunshot wounds. Eme ...
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  • NJ.com: Troubled pasts, a 'scary' number of guns and 3 men dead in 19 hours
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