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A Newark first-grader is recovering after being slashed on the head by another classmate with a box cutter. Latoya Spruill says her son Zahler Tillery is in the first grade at Hawthorne Avenue School

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First-grader slashed in head by another student

A Newark first-grader is recovering after being slashed on the head by another classmate with a box cutter. Latoya Spruill says her son Zahler Tillery is in the first grade at Hawthorne Avenue School

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