Rising basketball star ID’d as teen fatally shot near N.J. high school

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A teen shot to death in East Orange on Monday has been identified as a local high school student, a valuable athlete, and a budding basketball player with a bright future ahead.

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Latrell Duncan, 16, was a student at East Orange Campus High School. He was considered one of the top 10 basketball recruits in the state.

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No arrests have been made in connection with the fatal shooting on Lincoln Street in Newark. Officials said he was shot four times and died from his injuries.

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Duncan was regarded as one of the top youth basketball prospects in New Jersey.

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He scored 180 points last season as a freshman on the East Orange campus. The crime scene is a little over half a mile from where Duncan attended high school.

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Essex County Acting Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and East Orange Police Chief Phyllis Bindi said on Tuesday that the shooting was being investigated.

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Duncan also starred on the AAU circuit for the Garden State Bounce, which an Instagram page described as one of the top 10 young recruits in the state.

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