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The string of shootings and fatal car accidents that marred an otherwise balmy May weekend in the Garden State could portend a predicted jump in post-pandemic crime, experts said Monday.
There isn t a specific reason why the violence which included shootings in Paterson, Camden and Fairfield Township in Cumberland County clustered together over the last three days. But it didn t shock law enforcement experts, who expect crime to worsen as more Americans emerge from their pandemic-induced hibernation.
There are a number of contributing factors, said Brian Higgins, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan and former chief of the Bergen County Police Department. These likely include people’s frustration with quarantines, lockdowns and social distancing, mixed with a toxic national atmosphere in the wake of November’s presidential election and the ongoing controversy over the high-profile deaths of Black people in police custod
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The men were scooped up a day after Marko Guberovic, 38, was found dead outside the Satin Dolls, the strip club in Lodi, N.J. which served as the location of the fictional Bada Bing in HBO’s “The Sopranos.”
Marko Guberovic was killed outside Satin Dolls on Route 17 in Lodi at 3.40am Saturday
Authorities say the real estate agent had gotten into a fight at the club, beaten and left for dead on the southbound lane of the highway
Shortly after he was struck by a car and dragged roughly 600 feet
Five men were arrested and charged with aggravated manslaughter and endangering an injured victim in connection to his death
Friends are raising money to pay for funeral costs
Satin Dolls is best known as the Bada Bing strip club in The Sopranos