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Shaneefah Allen
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Prosecutor: Wheelchair Bound Newark Boy, 8, Shot Himself Dead With Uncle's Gun
Two people were in custody and one at large after an 8-year-old Newark boy who was disabled and wheelchair bound shot and killed himself with a relative's gun he found in the house over the weekend, authorities announced Tuesday. Officers responded to the 100 block of Schuyler Avenue Sunday night on a report of an 8-year-old boy suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, and Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara. Jahmeer Allen, who was disabled and in a wheelchair, succumbed …