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On a cold December night in 1996, 18-year-old Willie Graves III was standing with two friends near a pay phone on Pero Street in Orange, New Jersey shortly before 10:40 p.m. Two men approached and suddenly opened fire. Graves was struck by four bullets, including a fatal wound to the back of his head. His companions, Phillip Satterfield and Devon Boyd, were wounded but survived.

Investigators identified Stacey Faulcon and Maurice Franklin as the assailants; the attack appeared to be retaliatory after an associate of the two had been jumped a few days earlier at a local nightclub. A witness stopped at a nearby traffic light saw a man in a white jacket with his arm extended, heard popping sounds, and watched that man flee in a white car. The same witness observed another man get into a brown car and recorded its license plate, which was later traced to Franklin. Both Faulcon and Franklin were arrested, charged with conspiracy to commit murder, murder, and attempted murder, and later convicted.

Did anyone in Orange at the time remember activity around Pero Street that night or have additional information about the cars seen fleeing?