Bergen St. & Harding Terrace — Reported Encounter and Shooting Area
A Newark man will spend at least the next three decades behind bars for gunning down a 20-year-old during a street argument last year. Wadi Brown, 34, was sentenced to 40 years in New Jersey state prison for the May 2025 shooting death of Keion Alston near the intersection of Bergen Street and Harding Terrace in the city’s South Ward.
According to New Jersey Hills Media Group, the fatal shooting happened on the afternoon of May 10, 2025. As detailed by RLS Media, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II announced the sentence after trial evidence showed Brown met Alston on Bergen Street, then walked with him around the corner to Harding Terrace, where the two argued before Brown fired six shots into Alston’s back…