In the late afternoon of September 14, 2013, a sense of grim familiarity washed over Newark's West Ward as police responded to yet another scene of violence. Inside a parked vehicle near the intersection of South 10th Street and 15th Avenue, two young lives had been extinguished by gunfire. One of the victims was NaQuese McCollum, a 16-year-old Black male from Newark, who had just begun his junior year at West Side High School. Alongside him was his 23-year-old cousin, Damien Matteaux. Both were
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