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Hundreds gather to remember Ray’Quan Brown, Trenton teen killed in gunfire
By Keith Brown/The Times of Trenton
on June 11, 2014 at 3:53 PM, updated June 11, 2014 at 4:26 PMTRENTON — The mourners wore white.
The casket was white. The horse-drawn carriage was white. So, too, were the horses.
Mourners did anything they could to brighten an unusually dark day for the hundreds who gathered at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton today, where a promising 16-year-old, gunned down in a shooting on June 1, was remembered as a light to all who knew him.
Ray’Quan Brown was killed on the 800 block of Stuyvesant Avenue in an attack that also injured Brown’s 27-year-old cousin. No one has been arrested in connection with the shooting, police have said.
“I’m sick of all this killing,’’ Pat Langston, one of Ray’Quan’s aunts, said outside the church. “A’int nobody winning. Nobody winning.’’
About 500 packed into the Calhoun Street church, which was surrounded by a deliberately visible display of police from at least three departments. It was a gird against the possibility of further violence in the wake of a shooting at a funeral of another Trenton teen in April, Trenton Police Lt. Mark Kieffer said.