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Keith Burton

Case from Irvington, NJ dated Oct 25, 2014

Victim Details

Keith Burton

Male

Black / African American

Irvington

NJ

2014-10-25

33

Keith

Burton

06/26/2026

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On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2014, a sense of normalcy was shattered on a residential street in Irvington, New Jersey. Thirty-three-year-old Keith Burton, a Black male, was walking along the 300 block of Myrtle Avenue around noon on October 25th when he was shot. The gunfire left him with a serious wound to his leg. Emergency services responded to the scene and transported Burton to University Hospital in nearby Newark for medical attention.

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  • NJ.com: Irvington man, 33, shot and killed, police say
  • Authorities identify man shot and killed in Irvington - NJ.com
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