Cantrell Wilkes

Death by Force

On a cold February evening in Irvington, New Jersey, a place of routine chores became the scene of a sudden and brutal act of violence. Cantrell Lamont Wilkes, a 43-year-old Black man, was inside the Laundry Depot on Chancellor Avenue on the night of February 17, 2018, when his life was cut short. The time was approximately 7:15 p.m., a time when the hum of washing machines would have been a familiar sound. That ordinary evening was shattered when an armed individual, concealed by a mask, entere ...Read More

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/1052429