Jordan Garcia, a 10-year-old boy, was walking home through Newark’s South Ward on the evening of November 15, 2025, when his life was cut short by gunfire. He had just left a local recreation center where he practiced and played with the West Ward Hawks, a youth football program that had become a second family to him. The route along Chancellor Avenue was familiar, a path he and his older brother took so often that it felt routine, almost safe, until that Saturday night when the sound of shots
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