On the night of August 21, 2014, Al-Teri Johnson, a 38-year-old Black / African American male from Newark, New Jersey, was fatally shot in the city’s West Ward, his death recorded in headlines simply as that of a “Newark man shot and killed,” the third homicide the city had endured in that single week. In the brief notices that survive online, he appears first as a name attached to a date and place, a resident of Newark whose life ended suddenly in gunfire, and whose body was found in his
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