The Star-Ledger reports:
A violent holiday season in Essex County has grown even bloodier with
the Christmas Day killings of a 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl,
who was struck by a stray bullet as she threw out the trash in front of
her Newark home.
The shooting on Schley Street, in the city’s South Ward, killed
Zainee Hailey, a seventh-grader at a nearby elementary school and a
singer in her church choir, and Kasson Morman, who attended Central High
School.
Kasson’s close friend — 14-year-old Abdul "Scooter" Frazier, a
freshman at Weequahic High School — was shot in the neck and seriously
injured.
Authorities released no motive for the attack, but two law
enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation said it
appeared one of the boys had been targeted as the pair stood on the
porch of a three-story home in the 100 block of Schley Street. Abdul
lived on the home’s first floor, a relative said.
Zainee, who lived on the third floor, simply stumbled into the
gunfire as she and her 7-year-old brother carried trash to the street
that night, police said. The brother was not injured.
The shooting pushed Newark’s 2013 homicide total to 102 — the highest
since 2007 — and marked the latest in a series of high-profile slayings
that have rocked communities around Essex County over the past two
weeks.
The spasm of violence includes the shooting death of Hoboken lawyer
Dustin Friedland, 30, during a carjacking at the upscale Mall at Short
Hills; the killing of college freshman Reginald Terry, 18, at a party in
Newark; and the spray of gunfire that left three people dead and two
others injured outside an Irvington go-go bar shortly after midnight on
Christmas Day.
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