Daylight shooting is 8th Camden slaying in 10 days
A fatal shooting was the 8th slaying in 10 days in Camden.
Some of the homicides in the deadly streak this month have been attributed to a squabble within the G-Shine Bloods gang.
Thirty-two-year-old Luis Gonzalez was killed near the corner of 8th and Vine Streets in North Camden and a second man was grazed by a bullet on Thursday.
The slaying was the 35th of the year in the city. The record for a year is 58 slayings in 1995.
Police Chief Scott Thomson tells The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill that authorities are “throwing the kitchen sink at the problem.”
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