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Man pleads not guilty in fatal shooting of 2-year-old Newark boy

A man pleaded not guilty this morning in the shooting death of his girlfriend's toddler son in a Newark apartment Friday. A public defender representing 27-year-old Wakir Bryant entered the plea on his

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