In the winter of 2016, the city of Camden was struck by a tragedy that would become its first homicide of the year. On the cold evening of January 7th, 13-year-old Nathaniel Plummer Jr., a male student at Octavius V. Catto Community School, was found lying on a sidewalk at the corner of Beacon and Line streets. He had been shot. Rushed to Cooper University Hospital, he succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of the following morning, January 8th. The city was left to grapple with the violen
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