Newark Buries Playground Shooting Victims
3 Young People, Shot Execution-Style In School Yard, Mourned At Separate Funerals
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Play CBS Video Video Newark Mayor Announces Arrest CBS News Raw: Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker and Police Director Garry McCarthy announce an arrest in the violent murders of three college students. One suspect is still at large.
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Video Schoolyard Executions Four kids known as good students who served the community were shot execution-style in Newark, N.J. Three are dead; one survived. Michelle Miller reports.
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Shalga Hightower, right, mother of Iofemi Hightower, one of three college students killed by a gunman, is comforted in court by friends, as defendant Jose Carranza, unseen, who is charged with the three murders and wounding a fourth person, appears in state Superior Court in Newark, N.J., Friday, Aug. 10, 2007. Hightower's funeral was Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, Pool)
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The four victims, friends aged 18 to 20, were shot while visiting in a school yard not far from their homes Saturday night. Authorities have said robbery appeared to be the motive. (CBS)
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Defendant Jose Carranza, who is charged with killing three college students and wounding a fourth, stands in state Superior Court in Newark, N.J., during an appearance Friday, Aug. 10, 2007. Carranza pleaded not guilty to the crimes. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)
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This photo provided by Newark, N.J., police at a news conference on Aug. 9, 2007, shows Jose Carranza, 28. Carranza pleaded not guilty on Friday in the killings of three college students and the wounding of another. (AP Photo/Newark Police Dept.)
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Photo Essay Schoolyard Slayings Three college students killed, one wounded after being shot execution-style in Newark, N.J.
Mayor Cory A. Booker was interrupted by applause as he passionately urged the people of Newark to make a difference and help fight a murder rate that has spiked in recent years.
Quoting the words of the father of Dashon Harvey, 20, Booker said, "We need to raise our children."
Harvey's funeral in a Baptist church was part of a morning of funerals. Services were scheduled later for Terrance Aeriel, 18, and Iofemi Hightower, 20.
The friends were shot during an apparent robbery attempt that authorities have called one of the most disturbing killings in Newark in recent memory.
Terrance Aeriel's sister, Natasha Aeriel, was shot in the head but survived and has helped investigators identify a suspect in the case.
The three victims were ordered to kneel in front of a wall before each was shot in the back of the head, authorities have said.
On Thursday, Booker announced the arrest of 28-year-old Jose Carranza and a 15-year-old male who was not identified because of his age. Another 15-year male was arrested Friday night, and authorities continue to seek other suspects in the murders.
Scores of students from Delaware State University, where Harvey and the Aeriel siblings were students, were expected to attend the funerals, as were Gov. Jon S. Corzine and Attorney General Anne Milgram.
"As a human being, not just your governor, I am here with a broken heart, a sad heart, a heavy heart," Corzine said at Harvey's funeral. "These children deserved better."
All four shooting victims were Newark residents. Hightower, who was in the process of enrolling at Delaware State for the fall semester, and the Aeriels attended West Side High School, while Harvey graduated from University High.
Funeral services for Harvey were held at Newark's Metropolitan Baptist Church. Terrance Aeriel's funeral was scheduled for New Hope Baptist Church in Newark and Hightower's was to be held at Grace Temple Baptist Church in Newark.
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You're right, race should have nothing to do with this. It was a terrible and horrible crime. We have promising children dead at the hands of criminals who should not have been on the streets in the first place...
Resources are wasted by strip searching old ladies in airports and confiscating shaving cream from carry-on bags.
Carry the fight against daily terror to the streets of the country, not to the streets of Iraq.
If our souls are the most important and this shell that is our body is only temporary, why do people only focus on the shell?
Your theory would explain why the only people going missing these days are white women via the media. It would also explain why we focus on those black miners in Utah or the black family in CT or the black lacrosse players in NC or all the laws named after black children who have been killed.
I get your point.
Posted by vancouverboo at 09:45 PM : Aug 11, 2007
I used to live there. A friend of mine told me his daughter tried working for a fast food place while in high school but quit due to the harassment from the male Hispanics that work there. Ever wonder why it's a job Americans won't do? She said they were creepy and would not stop if told no. Probably illegal with a fake SSAN.
Your right if the victim isn't of "color" it probably won't hit national news. Because white people aren't victims...They're the ones causing all of these sordid things to happen...
go figure.