JERSEY CITY - Nearly two dozen candles austere forth the sidewalk on Martin Luther King Drive Sunday afternoon, hours afterwards a cutting larboard one man asleep and at atomic two others injured.
Rymaire Stevens, a 28-year-old ancestor of two adolescent children, was fatally attempt abreast the Warner Avenue circle at about 12:30 a.m., his ancestors said.
His brother, Sean Larry Stevens, was amid a accumulation of ancestors associates and accompany to accumulate at the arena and ache his death. He declared his adolescent brother, who lived aloof a few blocks abroad with cousins, as a "teddy bear."
"Every time we were calm it was a bewitched moment," the brother said. "The best warm, and loving, sacrificial, altruistic being I've met."
The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office has not appear capacity of the cutting yet, but accepted one man died and two others were injured. One of the actual victims suffered austere injuries but is accepted to survive, sources said. A fourth being banned medical absorption for a abrade wound, sources said.
Stevens died at the arena and it is believed one of the added victims was sitting in a car back he was shot. Shattered glass, medical gloves, and added bits was still arresting in the roadway.
Additional advice is accepted to be appear after in the day.
Friends larboard letters on a white bodice blind aloft a canteen of Remy Martin that was placed on the sidewalk.
"I adulation you consistently and forever," one bulletin read.
"I adulation you brother," addition read.
The victim's affecting mother beneath to comment.
Sean Larry Stevens said he was out of accompaniment back he heard about his brother's death. Within two hours, he said he was continuing at the bend area his brother took his aftermost breath.
"My acknowledgment back I saw this though, I wasn't assured to see this," he said continuing abreast his brother's memorial. "Growing up, you never apprehend to see a canonizing for your adolescent brother."
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