East Orange man gets 20 years for shooting two Newark police officers

An East Orange man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting two Newark Police Department officers in 2022.

Kendall Howard, 33, had pleaded guilty in March to first-degree attempted murder and weapons charges in the case.

On Nov, 1, 2022, at approximately 2 p.m. Newark police officers Johnny Aquino and Jabril Paul were dispatched to a parking lot behind 25 Van Velsor Place to assist in locating a suspect wanted in connection with a shooting in October, according to Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II…

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