Wake Scheduled For Newark Officer Killed In Drive-By Shooting
Officer William Johnson was standing at the counter of a fast-food restaurant trying to get a slice of pizza when he was shot along with two other people last Thursday.
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Officer William Johnson was standing at the counter of a fast-food restaurant trying to get a slice of pizza when he was shot along with two other people last Thursday.
A string of shootings have left four people dead and eight wounded in Newark over the weekend.
A day after three were killed in separate shootings across New Jersey's largest city, another shooting broke out on Sunday.
Two separate shootings Saturday killed two men and injured three people in Newark.
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carol A. Murray said Saturday that 19-year-old Rasul McNeill-Thomas, is now charged with first-degree murder in the death of Officer William Johnson.
Police Det. Josephine Santaniello says the man's body was discovered around 2 a.m. following reports of a shooting on Highland Avenue.
A 19-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed an off-duty Newark, N.J., police officer who was getting a slice of pizza at a neighborhood fast-food place.
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