Joshua Anthony Taylor

Death by Force

Joshua Anthony Taylor, a 20-year-old Black / African American man, was a lifelong Jersey City resident whose life was cut short on August 8, 2014, when he was shot and killed in the city he called home. Public records and memorial listings describe his death as the result of gun violence, the kind of sudden, senseless act that turns an ordinary summer day into the date a family never forgets.

Those who knew him did not remember him first as a case number or a headline, but as “Joshua†...Read More

NJ.com: Man gunned down in Jersey City identified as 20-year-old city man