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Murder Suspect Arrested Days After Orange Park Killing, Prosecutor Says Murder Suspect Arrested Days After Orange Park Killing, Prosecutor Says
Murder Suspect Arrested Days After Orange Park Killing, Prosecutor Says Police have arrested a 24-year-old man in the killing of a 28-year-old man in an Essex County park earlier this month. Brandon Beasley is accused of shooting and killing DeAndre Smith in Metcalf Park on Valley Street in Orange on Thursday, Sept. 12, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II and Orange Public Safety Director Todd Warren said. Smith was rushed to University Hospital after the 8:30 p.m. incident, where he died on Sunday, Sept. 15.  An investigation by the Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force and the Orange Police Department led authorities to charge Beasley, with…

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by Cecilia Levine