Juan Martinez

Death by Force

Juan Martinez, a 39-year-old Puerto Rican Hispanic man from Paterson, New Jersey, left home on the afternoon of May 1, 2017, as the spring light settled over the city’s tightly packed streets, unaware that a brief street dispute would pull him into its path. Around 4:45 p.m., near the corner of Madison and Essex Streets in Paterson’s 5th Ward, a confrontation unfolded and gunfire erupted, leaving Martinez collapsed on the pavement with multiple gunshot wounds as people rushed toward his moti ...Read More

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