A 36-year-old man, Jesse Dunbarr, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 9-year-old Yasin Morrison outside his grandparents' home in Newark, New Jersey. The incident occurred on Friday evening when Dunbarr allegedly opened fire on a group of people, killing Yasin and injuring another man and grazing Yasin's father. The motive behind the shooting remains unknown.
NEWARK , N.J. — A man has been arrested after a child was shot and killed outside his grandparents' home in Newark .Jesse Dunbarr, 36, is now facing first-degree murder charges in the death of 9-year-old Yasin Morrison.Yasin Morrison killed in Newark shooting, 2 adults injuredThe child's grandparents say Friday evening, their son was dropping Yasin and his 3-year-old sister off at their house on Osborne Terrace to spend the weekend.
As they were getting out of the car, police say Dunbarr opened fire, striking Yasin and another man and grazing Yasin's father.'We thought it was a car backfiring on 78, somebody was doing something else. Shooting, bullets never crossed my mind,' grandmother Tisha Bolden said.Yasin was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.'I didn't get to see him at the hospital, but I saw him at the most unimaginable way downstairs,' Bolden said.
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