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Authorities: NYC Man, 26, Gets Life In Prison For 'Brutal, Senseless' Toms River Shooting Death
A 26-year-old man from New York City has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing a drug dealer, authorities said.
Anthony Barksdale, also known as Shakar Barksdale and previously from Seaside Heights, was found guilty after a jury trial in the murder of Steven E. Stallworth of Brick.
“This was a brutal and senseless murder," Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said
Stallworth was shot in the cheek outside the Hampton Gardens apartment building in Toms River on March 5, 2018, with a 9mm, hollow-point bullet from a Ruger automatic handgun, prosecutors …