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$100M Claims Filed By Family Of Drowned Bayonne Brothers: Report $100M Claims Filed By Family Of Drowned Bayonne Brothers: Report
$100M Claims Filed By Family Of Drowned Bayonne Brothers: Report The family of a pair of brothers who drowned earlier this month at a pool in Bayonne have filed two civil claims for $50 million each, NJ Advance Media reports. Three lifeguards were on-duty at the Lincoln Community School on June 8 when 16-year-old Jack Jiang and 19-year-old Chu Ming Zheng drowned, police previously said. The family's attorneys maintain the brothers' deaths were a result of negligence, NJ.com says. Police said only that the brothers were in the deep end of the pool when they were spotted in distress. A guard and two others removed them from the pool and immediately b…

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by Cecilia Levine
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UPDATE: Pair Charged In Fatal Bridgewater Birthday Party Shooting UPDATE: Pair Charged In Fatal Bridgewater Birthday Party Shooting
Update: Pair Charged In Fatal Bridgewater Birthday Party Shooting A Linden man fired multiple rounds into a vehicle, killing the driver outside of a Somerset County birthday party over the weekend, said authorities who charged him and one other man Monday. Sometime Saturday night, Roobino Philemon, 30, of West Orange and a friend showed up to a birthday party being held at a Bayberry Road in Bridgewater, Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson said in a joint statement. The homeowner from the front door told Philemon and the other man to leave as they were not welcome, Robertson said. Philemon and the man went to their car and stopped at Foot…

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by Cecilia Levine