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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/06/sc...s.ap/index.html

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) -- Three friends were forced to kneel against a wall behind an elementary school and were shot to death at close range, and a fourth was found about 30 feet away with gunshot and knife wounds to her head, police said.

All of the victims in the shootings late Saturday were from Newark and planned to attend Delaware State University this fall.

No arrests had been made by Monday and authorities had not identified suspects, said Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor's office.

None of the victims had criminal records, authorities said.

"They were good kids," Essex County Prosecutor Paul Dow said.

The four had been listening to music in a parking lot behind Mount Vernon School when they were gradually joined by a group of men, authorities said.

Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy said the four exchanged text messages saying they should leave, but were attacked before they could do so.

Police said the attackers shot one young woman, then forced her three companions down an alley, lined them up against a wall, made them kneel and shot each in the head.

Natasha Aerial, 19, was listed in fair condition at Newark's University Hospital, authorities said. Police identified her companions as her brother, Terrance Aerial, 18, Iofemi Hightower, 20, and Dashon Harvey, 20.

The Aerials' mother, Renee Tucker, said the last time she saw them was around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, when they told her they were going around the corner to get something to eat.

"They said they were going to come right back to the house," Tucker said.

Hightower was a motivated student who had recently enrolled at Delaware State, according to great-uncle John McClain.

"She was one of the most beautiful ladies you'd ever want to meet," McClain said. "Very smart, very intelligent. She wanted to be something in life."

In the wake of the killings, Mayor Cory A. Booker again found himself defending his administration's inability to make a dent in the city's murder rate.

"He doesn't deserve another day, another second, while our children are at stake," said Donna Jackson, president of Take Back Our Streets, a community-based organization. "Anyone who has children in the city is in panic mode."

Booker's office didn't return a call for comment on Monday.

A month ago, Booker and Police Director Garry McCarthy announced that crime in the city had fallen by 20 percent in the first six months of 2007 compared to a year ago. Yet despite decreases in the number of rapes, aggravated assaults and robberies, the murders have continued.
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Saturday night's killings, along with an unrelated shooting over the weekend that killed a Montclair man, brought Newark's murder total to 60 in 2007. That is three fewer than in the same period in 2006. But there have been 17 slaying in the eight weeks since June 12.

At Delaware State, officials said the school plans to hold a memorial service Aug. 28, after the student body returns for the fall semester.

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ZQ8Dude

population control

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devil

Where is Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to protest this horrible tragedy when you need it. They'll never show there faces or speak up because mostly likely a black person committed these murders.

They only speak up when a white person has done something wrong.

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KB24

Sounds good to me

JohnnyBlazed

sounds pretty fukn random.....like some stupid a$s punk had to shoot some people before he could be in the gang

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ZQ8Dude

kill them all, let god sort'em out.

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devil

Gangs welcoming in new members by going out there and killing innocent people, MLK Jr. would be real proud.

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MasterYodaX

its your fault for oppressing them all this time

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devil

nobody in my family ever owed a slave, they do this sh1t own their own because they are soulless animals.

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SlowAsStock

what kinda gun laws do you guys have in Jersey?

I'd imagine these guys didn't have a CHL..

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Chris_Red_V8

Why doesn't he just kill them all? I mean, hell, taking out a helicopter with a car was no big deal...

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AmmoChief

u tell em devil

MasterYodaX

still your fault.yours and bush's....and global warming

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DaMightyAntEater

Its scary to think how many people this day and age still think like devil.

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devil

Got more fans then you do, because I don't care what people say or think, I tell it like it is.

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devil

It's the parents fault for not teaching their child how to act like a decent human being. And the hip hop community for setting poor role models for these urban kids who believe one day they finally get respect.

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DaMightyAntEater

fans?
Whatever.

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devil

Now you're bitter.

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will.rinehart

any fan of your logic should be shot in the face with a 12 gauge. what an ignorant prick.

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