A dispute at a Paterson tobacco shop ended in a fatal shooting on May 6, 2023. Around 1:14 a.m. officers were flagged down near East Main Street and Hillman Street and found 34-year-old Kyheem Clark with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center and was pronounced dead there.

Investigators say the confrontation began inside the tobacco shop between Clark and the owner, 47-year-old Calvin King, and that King shot Clark. King, a Paterson resident, was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a shotgun and being a prohibited person in possession of a weapon. He is in custody at the Bergen County Jail while the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office seeks pre-trial detention.

Did anyone see or hear anything at the tobacco shop that night that could help clarify what led to the dispute?