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Teenager Killed After Reported Fight Over His Jacket

A New York City teenager is dead after he reportedly refused to give up his Polo Ralph Lauren Jacket to another young man. Friends of sixteen-year-old Raphael Ward, who lived in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, told the New York Post that Ward had an altercation over his jacket before he was shot. Cynthia Nieves, 14, who was with Ward before the shooting, told the Post that he warned her, "Go home!" He didn't say what was going on, but, she told the paper, "He knew they were...Full Story
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