Jarid Anthony Smith, a 16-year-old Black male from Newark, was one of two teenagers killed in an afternoon shooting on December 23, 2010. The violence unfolded just after 4:00 p.m. outside the Stop 1 Meat Market near South 12th Street and Avon Avenue, where gunfire erupted and left multiple people wounded.
Witnesses and first responders described chaotic scenes as people scrambled for cover and medics tended to the wounded; five people were struck in that first incident, and Smith and an
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