Shortly after midnight Aug. 3, police responded to a report of shots fired in the 200 block of North Ninth Street in Newark. Vernon A. Robinson, a 34-year-old East Orange man, was found unresponsive in a rear yard. He had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Essex County Prosecutor's Homicide Task Force Tips Line at 1-877-TIPS-4EC o(877-847-7432).
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