On August 25, 2014, 33-year-old Shaton Cliney, a male resident of Newark, New Jersey, was shot and killed in a burst of gun violence that added one more name to the city’s grim tally of homicide victims. That day’s shooting marked the end of his life in a city already struggling with persistent crime and recurring gunfire, leaving another family and neighborhood stunned in the final days of summer.
His killing came during what local reports described as a brutal stretch for Newark, w
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