Ibn Hatcher Downey
Age 18
East Orange, New Jersey
He was fashionable, friendly and family-oriented
In a photograph, he looks pensive, wearing a dark jacket, red hood hoodie and a striped beanie.
In an earlier photo, he wears a gray tie, a light blue shirt and a navy vest with a gold eagle on the left side of his chest. He was a member of the founding class of the Eagle Academy For Young Men of Newark. The school lauded him as an “independent spirit.”
Ibn Hatcher Downey, 18, was shot and killed on Jan. 1, 2019 in East Orange, New Jersey, on North 17th Street. His death was the first homicide in New Jersey for the year.
