In the early evening of March 12, 2018, a burst of violence on a Newark street claimed the life of 28-year-old Shahad Smith. A Bloomfield resident, Smith was in the 700 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at approximately 5:42 p.m. when he was fatally shot. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene less than thirty minutes later. The weapon used in the shooting was identified as an assault weapon. This tragic event was part of a particularly violent 24-hour period in Newark tha
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