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12-08-2006, 08:48 AM
Newark slaying puts toll at 100
Friday, December 08, 2006
BY GEORGE BERKIN
Star-Ledger Staff
Newark's homicide tally reached a grim milestone last night when a 21-year-old East Orange man was shot outside a grocery store, making him the 100th person to die violently in the city this year, police said.
The victim, identified by police as Yuelle Eure, was gunned down outside the Perez Grocery Store at Shephard Avenue and Huntington Terrace, police Capt. Derek Glenn said. The shooting took place a few blocks from Beth Israel Medical Center in the city's South Ward.
Eure was shot in the torso about 9:10 p.m. and was pronounced dead at University Hospital about 30 minutes later, Glenn said.
"We haven't ruled out the possibility that it was drug-related," Glenn said. He did not know how many shots had been fired.
The grocery store was open at the time of the shooting, but the victim was neither an employee nor a customer, the captain said.
No suspects were in custody early this morning, but police were trying to locate a red vehicle, possibly a two-door one, that was seen speeding off from the scene at the time of the crime. However, police did not characterize the shooting as a drive-by.
It was not immediately clear in which direction the vehicle was traveling. No gun was recovered.
With a little more than three weeks left until the new year, Glenn confirmed that last night's shooting death was the city's 100th since the beginning of 2006.
The shooting took place on a bitterly cold and windy night under a cloudless sky and a nearly full moon.
A woman who resides diagonally across from the Perez Grocery Store said she was watching a reality crime show when she heard four shots outside her building.
"I didn't think nothing of it, I really didn't, it's all too familiar," said the woman, who would identify herself only by saying that her first name begins with the letter "R".
This comment scares the sh*t out of me
The woman said she had previously seen the victim, but did not know his name. She said two of her cousins were killed nearby -- one in 1999 and the other in 2000.
Investigators, meanwhile, combed the crime scene for clues. A spotlight with four piercing lamps threw light from across Shephard Avenue and onto the entrance of the grocery store.
Yellow tape was stretched over each street about 50 feet from the intersection to keep the curious at bay. Unlike many crime scenes, perhaps because of the cold, few bystanders gathered near the yellow barriers to seek and share information.
By putting the year's murder total in triple figures, last night's homicide made for an unfavorable comparison with recent years past.
Just last weekend, three men were gunned down in the city, bringing the year's murder total to 99. That surpassed last year's total of 97 homicides, according to police.
The last year in which the number of homicides hit 100 was 1995, when 102 murders were recorded.
"The war isn't in Iraq, it's right here in Newark," a friend of one of the victims of the last weekend's shootings said after that homicide.
Hey Klap murders are up, but overall crime is down look at the bright side we have less people jay walking.:mad: :mad:
© 2006 The Star Ledger
© 2006 NJ.com All Rights Reserved.
Friday, December 08, 2006
BY GEORGE BERKIN
Star-Ledger Staff
Newark's homicide tally reached a grim milestone last night when a 21-year-old East Orange man was shot outside a grocery store, making him the 100th person to die violently in the city this year, police said.
The victim, identified by police as Yuelle Eure, was gunned down outside the Perez Grocery Store at Shephard Avenue and Huntington Terrace, police Capt. Derek Glenn said. The shooting took place a few blocks from Beth Israel Medical Center in the city's South Ward.
Eure was shot in the torso about 9:10 p.m. and was pronounced dead at University Hospital about 30 minutes later, Glenn said.
"We haven't ruled out the possibility that it was drug-related," Glenn said. He did not know how many shots had been fired.
The grocery store was open at the time of the shooting, but the victim was neither an employee nor a customer, the captain said.
No suspects were in custody early this morning, but police were trying to locate a red vehicle, possibly a two-door one, that was seen speeding off from the scene at the time of the crime. However, police did not characterize the shooting as a drive-by.
It was not immediately clear in which direction the vehicle was traveling. No gun was recovered.
With a little more than three weeks left until the new year, Glenn confirmed that last night's shooting death was the city's 100th since the beginning of 2006.
The shooting took place on a bitterly cold and windy night under a cloudless sky and a nearly full moon.
A woman who resides diagonally across from the Perez Grocery Store said she was watching a reality crime show when she heard four shots outside her building.
"I didn't think nothing of it, I really didn't, it's all too familiar," said the woman, who would identify herself only by saying that her first name begins with the letter "R".
This comment scares the sh*t out of me
The woman said she had previously seen the victim, but did not know his name. She said two of her cousins were killed nearby -- one in 1999 and the other in 2000.
Investigators, meanwhile, combed the crime scene for clues. A spotlight with four piercing lamps threw light from across Shephard Avenue and onto the entrance of the grocery store.
Yellow tape was stretched over each street about 50 feet from the intersection to keep the curious at bay. Unlike many crime scenes, perhaps because of the cold, few bystanders gathered near the yellow barriers to seek and share information.
By putting the year's murder total in triple figures, last night's homicide made for an unfavorable comparison with recent years past.
Just last weekend, three men were gunned down in the city, bringing the year's murder total to 99. That surpassed last year's total of 97 homicides, according to police.
The last year in which the number of homicides hit 100 was 1995, when 102 murders were recorded.
"The war isn't in Iraq, it's right here in Newark," a friend of one of the victims of the last weekend's shootings said after that homicide.
Hey Klap murders are up, but overall crime is down look at the bright side we have less people jay walking.:mad: :mad:
© 2006 The Star Ledger
© 2006 NJ.com All Rights Reserved.