Mujahid Henry's father accepted his son's posthumous diploma on Wednesday the Prudential Center in Newark.

NEWARK -- Mujahid Henry aspired to a career in politics and had already taken up his cause: tackling drunk driving.  

At 23 years old, Henry's family and mentors said he was already a dedicated public servant and eager to change the world. The Newark native was poised to graduate from Rutgers University Newark on Wednesday and receive a degree in public and nonprofit administration.

But days before his commencement, Henry was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Linden.

On Wednesday, Henry's father, Darryl Henry, walked across the stage at the Prudential Center in black dress robes and received his son's posthumous degree.

"It was a humbling experience," the elder Henry told NJ Advance Media. "Wishing that he was here so I could see him picking up something he worked hard for."

"I would have said, 'way to go Mujahid, you did it,'" Henry added. 

Sonya Lindsay, Mujahid's mother, at times cried during the ceremony as at least 30 supporters and family members sat by her in the stands. 

"Wishing he was here to accept it and carry on the things that he wanted to do in life," she said. "He had that vision ... those things instilled in the children that we taught him coming from rough neighborhoods and still being able to be successful."

Mujahid was one of eight siblings and was home-schooled by his mother. He transferred into Rutgers-Newark and wanted to go to law school and become a politician.

Lindsay said her son was always helping and inspiring others -- even herself. She showed a reporter a quote she had saved in her cell phone that her son would always say: "It will hurt today and you will be in pain. But you will stand again so stand up even if you wobble ... you will eventually start walking straight again." 

Sharon Stroye, assistant dean for undergraduate programs at the school of public affairs and administration, said Henry worked two jobs and was always the designated driver among his peers and colleagues. 

"In 23 years, this young man has left a legacy and an impact on so many lives from students to politicians," Stroye said Wednesday. 

"You know how they say everything is dark and there's a spot of light? Mujahid would find that spot of light in people when they only see darkness and he would pull that out and the whole light would shine," Lindsay said. "He had a way of bringing something out of people to make them better."

Lindsay said after her son's death, she learned of all the things he had done in the community, including mentor younger kids. Henry was a legislative aide to Essex County Freeholder Leonard Luciano and was active in Phil Murphy's Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign.

"I'm happy for him and I'm happy that they still recognized him because he wanted to change the world, he wanted to do a lot of great things but it was cut short," she said. 

Mujahid's diploma and a Rutgers red tassel were given to his family in a frame and will hang in their home -- a home Lindsay says is not the same without Mujahid. 

"I would love for him to be here just so I could holler at him when he's in trouble so he can say 'mumsy I'm sorry.' That's what I would love to be able to scream and yell at him again to tell him to clean up his room, take out the garbage, go to the store, that kind of stuff," she said. "The little things."

Karen Yi may be reached at kyi@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter at @karen_yi or on Facebook. 

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The city previously settled a lawsuit regarding similar allegations for $200,000

NEWARK -- An East Orange police sex crimes detective who is suing the department over alleged groping by a supervisor says she and her colleagues have been the targets of retaliation within the department.

In an amended complaint filed in April in state Superior Court, the Special Victims Unit detective claims that since filing her original lawsuit in November, she has been issued an official warning for the first time in her career, and received a negative performance evaluation for what she says was leave from the department -- taken on doctor's orders -- to deal with the aftermath of the assault.

The supervisor who issued the negative performance evaluation, the complaint says, is the same one who assaulted her.

NJ Advance Media is withholding the names of the officers due to the nature of the allegations.

The detective's attorney, R. Armen McOmber of Red Bank, said the city previously settled harassment claims in 2014 against the same supervisor by another woman, who alleged the supervisor had masturbated on her couch, telling the woman to keep the incident a secret.

The city paid out $200,000 in that instance, according to court filings. 

Instead of disciplining the supervisor, McOmber has said, the city has since promoted him.

In the September incident, the detective says in her lawsuit, her supervisor grabbed her as they left an elevator, rubbing her shoulders and trying to kiss her neck before she pulled away, running into a supply room to escape before reporting the assault to her superiors.

The city's attorney later told the detective there wasn't enough evidence to issue a finding of sexual harassment, according to the lawsuit.

The amended complaint also accuses the supervisor in question of pressuring others to influence the detective in an attempt to drop the lawsuit, and harassing another officer who refused.

Since the lawsuit was first filed, attorneys said, the detective's partner has also been demoted from detective to the patrol division as a result of his association with her.

SVU cop claims boss groped her

The lawsuit seeks damages from the city of East Orange, the department and the detective's supervisors both for the alleged harassment and discrimination, and the alleged retaliation against the detective and a fellow officer.

A spokesperson for East Orange did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday on the new allegations. The city has previously declined to comment on the original complaint, citing the pending litigation and internal personnel matters.

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There is talent galore in the underclass ranks across New Jersey. NJ.com ranked the Top 40 sophomore in the state.

Ayalew Tasew was last seen on Main Street on Tuesday

Ayalew Tasew (Courtesy of Rahway PD)

RAHWAY -- Rahway police are looking for a 71-year-old Ethiopian visitor who went missing from his family's apartment Tuesday.

Ayalew Tasew was last seen leaving the apartment on the 1100 block of Main Street at about 8:30 a.m., police said. 

Tasew was wearing a black, leather jacket, white dress pants, a light blue and white checkered shirt, a dark cap and black leather shoes when he went missing. 

He does not speak English and is unfamiliar with the area, police said.

Police ask anyone with information about Tasew to call them at 732-827-2200.

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Summer-like warmth is gripping New Jersey for the second straight day.

UPDATE: Heat records fall as mercury continues to rise

After a long and annoying wave of cool, wet weather, New Jersey is basking in summer-like heat for the second straight day, putting some daily temperature records at risk of being tied or broken.

Forecasters say the climate stations at Newark Liberty International Airport and in New York City's Central Park have the best shot at hitting record territory for May 18, but the official thermometers at Atlantic City International Airport in Pomona, Trenton-Mercer Airport in Ewing and Philadelphia International Airport could come very close to hitting their May 18 records.

Newark's record high for May 18 is 90 degrees, set in 1986, and New York City's record is also 90 degrees, set in 1936.

To match their records for May 18, Trenton would have to soar to 95 degrees, Atlantic City would have to reach 93 degrees and Philly would have to hit 94, according to climate data from the National Weather Service.

Trenton reached 90 degrees on Wednesday, topping its old record high for May 17 by one degree, the weather service said. No other major climate stations in the New Jersey region reached record territory on Wednesday, despite the surge of summer-like air that flowed in from the Southwest.

While most of the state was enjoying beach-like weather in the upper 80s and low 90s on Wednesday, many Shore towns in South Jersey and on Long Beach Island were stuck in the low 70s because of the cool sea breeze from the Atlantic Ocean.

These are among the hottest temperatures reported on Wednesday across the state:

• Toms River: 94 degrees
• Berkeley Twp.: 93 degrees
• Haworth: 93 degrees
• Hawthorne: 93 degrees
• Howell: 93 degrees
• Oswego Lake: 93 degrees
• Sicklerville: 93 degrees
• Caldwell: 92 degrees
• Cedar Bridge: 92 degrees
• Hamilton: 92 degrees
• Hillsborough: 92 degrees
• Hopewell: 92 degrees
• Jersey City: 92 degrees
• Moorestown: 92 degrees
• Newark: 92 degrees
• New Brunswick: 92 degrees
• Oceanport: 92 degrees
• Piney Hollow: 92 degrees
• Red Lion: 92 degrees
• Silas Little: 92 degrees
• Stewartsville: 92 degrees
• Walpack: 92 degrees
• Wayne: 92 degrees

Among the lowest temperature readings on Wednesday were 70 degrees in Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island, 71 in West Cape May and 72 at the Atlantic City Marina, according to data from the New Jersey Weather & Climate Network at Rutgers University.

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A Jersey City Arts High School student bested 33 other students to win the 2017 Congressional Art Competition for the 10th congressional district.

A Jersey City Arts High School student bested 33 other students to win the 2017 Congressional Art Competition for the 10th congressional district.

Her winning artwork is titled "Confidence of Fears," which will be on display for one year at the U.S. Capitol for members of congress, staff and visitors to enjoy. In June, Martinez will have the opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in a national ceremony with other winners from around the country.

Arts High is a part of Snyder High School.

In addition to Martinez's overall victory, seven other winners were announced in various categories, including Marcus Morales and Akyla Butt, both of McNair Academic High School.

The other winners and theire categories.

-- Fatou Ridgird, Newark Arts High School, Best Painting

-- Akyla Butt, McNair Academic High School, Best Print

-- Janielle Knight, East Orange Campus High School, Best Collage

-- Rachel Lantigua, Newark Arts High School, Best Digital image

-- Jazmin Vera, Newark Arts High School, Best Photograph

-- Marcya Drigo, Orange High School, Best Mixed Media

-- Marcus Morales, McNair Academic High School, Best Drawing

"I want to congratulate Jennifer Martinez, the category winners, and every other student who submitted artwork in this year's competition," Payne Jr.  said. "The creativity and talent of our local students is so impressive, and I can't wait to see Jennifer's drawing every time I walk to the Capitol."

Thirty four students from 11 schools participated in the competition and the winners were treated to an awards reception at the Newark Museum on May 15.

Since 1982, nearly one million students from across the country have participated in the congressional art competition, sponsored by the Congressional Institute, which encourages members of congress to recognize and support the artistic talent of their young constituents.

Osborne promises an intimate show featuring some Dylan classics and lesser-known songs.

There are cover artists -- musicians that perform the songs of others with few changes -- and there are interpreters, who reimagine songs and present them differently. Joan Osborne is the latter. 

The soulful singer, who performs songs from Bob Dylan's playbook on her current tour, said she looks chooses songs she feels connected to and then puts her own spin on them.

"I try to find the sweet spot, where the song and my voice really seem to blossom," Osborne said in an interview with NJ Advance Media. "I'm going to bring something to a song that no one else will."

Fans can marvel at Osborne's masterful interpretations when she performs at the South Orange Performing Arts Center May 19. The intimate show -- Osborne will share the stage with two other musicians -- will allow the singer who burst onto radio play lists in the mid-1990s with "One of Us" to showcase her range as well as Dylan's.The concert play list, she said, "shows the breadth of what he's capable of as a writer."

One of the Dylan songs that's undergone the Osborne treatment is "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)," perhaps best remembered as a hit for Manfred Mann. Osborne's version has a gospel feel and slightly changed chords. 

"It gives the song this really joyful aspect. The words become uplifting and and lovely," she said. "The way you perform a song can give it different shades of meaning."

When she sings "Dark Eyes," from Dylan's 1985 "Empire Burlesque" album, Osborne said the song's evocative lyrics and stately beauty remind her of singing madrigals at her Kentucky high school. One of her favorite songs is "Ring Them Bells" from 1989's "Oh Mercy" album. Osborne's take is somber and haunting -- she's said she sometimes feels like crying while singing.   

With his enormous body of work, Osborne guessed there are songs Dylan hasn't sung in decades. Still, they are timeless, she said.

"His songs are looking for someone to sing them," she said. "He didn't just write about politics in the '60s He wrote songs about the human condition and they're timeless no matter what era you live in."

Before this tour, Osborne has last performed "Ring Them Bells" in 2002 for a fundraiser for 9/11 families. But the country's recent feeling of uncertainty and political unrest brought it to the forefront again.

"You can rely on great poets to come up with something to get us through hard times," Osborne said. "We need our musicians right now."

Joan Osborne Sings the Songs of Bob Dylan

South Orange Performing Arts Center

One SOPAC Way, South Orange.  

Tickets: $39-48, available online at www.sopacnow.org. May 19, 8 p.m. 

Natalie Pompilio is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She can be reached at nataliepompilio@yahoo.com. Find her on Twitter @nataliepompilio. Find NJ.com/Entertainment on Facebook.

Where is your favorite team playing in this year's state tournament?

2017 NJSIAA BASEBALL TOURNAMENT BRACKET

Brackets are not official until Friday, May 19 at noon.

SECTIONAL BRACKETS:

• North 1, Group 4
• North 1, Group 3
• North 1, Group 2
• North 1, Group 1

MORE: NJ.COM'S STATE TOURNAMENT PREVIEW

• North 2, Group 4
• North 2, Group 3
• North 2, Group 2
• North 2, Group 1

• Central, Group 4
• Central, Group 3
• Central, Group 2
• Central, Group 1

• South, Group 4
• South, Group 3
• South, Group 2
• South, Group 1

• Non-Public, North A
• Non-Public, South A
• Non-Public, North B
• Non-Public, South B

Temperature records have already been broken, and the hottest part of the day is still hours away.

It's official. This scorcher of a spring day is the hottest May 18 on record in Newark and New York City, according to temperature readings reported by the National Weather Service.

The mercury at Newark Liberty International Airport soared to 91 degrees at about 12:05 p.m. Thursday, then climbed to 92 degrees shortly before 1 p.m., topping the city's previous record high for May 18 by two degrees, the weather service said. The airport's old record of 90 degrees was set in 1986.

In Central Park in Manhattan, the temperature rose to 91 degrees at about 12:15 p.m., then jumped to 92 degrees at about 12:50 p.m. The city's old record of 90 degrees had held up since 1936, but was surpassed today.

Record highs being smashed across the area. Full coverage on https://t.co/Uad3dG4bKl including BIG relief from the heat in fcst @NBCNewYork pic.twitter.com/7bB4bEqU3D

-- Steven Sosna (@SteveSosna4NY) May 18, 2017

Weather forecasters are closely watching the thermometers in Atlantic City, Trenton and Philadelphia, where daily record highs could be in reach Thursday afternoon.

Since the hottest part of the day is usually the mid- to late afternoon, with the sun angle being at its highest, temperatures in Newark and New York City could rise even higher.

The summer-like heat is being generated by a large ridge of high pressure that's stationed near Bermuda, allowing a wave of warm air to surge into the Northeast region from the Southwest.

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Man allegedly tried to escape cops.

Dennis Rogers (Photo: Dept. of Public Safety) 

NEWARK -- A 30-year-old Newark man was arrested after he tossed a loaded gun and ran from police in the city's West Ward, authorities said Thursday.

Detectives with the police division's Special Enforcement Bureau responded to a Crime Stoppers tip of a man armed with a gun near 9th Street and South Orange Avenue Tuesday, according to Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose.

Dennis Rogers matched the tipster's description and fled when he spotted the police, but was soon captured, authorities said. Police recovered the loaded .40-caliber handgun he threw away.

Rogers was charged with various weapons offenses and resisting arrest.

In a statement, Ambrose urged anyone with information about crimes to submit tips at 1-877-NWK-TIPS (1-877-695-8477) or 1-877-NWK-GUNS (1-877-695-4867). Tips can also be submitted on the police division's new smartphone app.

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An appeals panel reversed an earlier ruling in favor of Union Carbine

The widow of a man who says he died of an asbestos-related illness after working at a New Jersey chemical plant for 40 years has grounds to sue Union Carbide, an appeals court ruled.

A trial court had previously awarded summary judgment in favor of the chemical giant, saying there wasn't enough proof to prove Willis Edenfield was exposed to asbestos.

News of the appeals court's ruling was first reported by Law360. 

Willis Edenfield learned he had mesothelioma in October 2010 and died three months later, the report said.

His widow, Thomasina Fowler, filed a wrongful death suit in Middlesex County Superior Court in June 2011.

Enfield worked at Union Carbide's plant in Bloomfield from 1954-1994. More than 38,000 pounds of asbestos passed through the facility from 1970 to 1982.

Two of his former co-workers previously tesitfied Enfield worked with asbestos in a mill room at the plant and that he worked with it frequently. While the two-judge appeals panel of Amy O'Connor and Mary Gibbons Whipple said that doesn't directly prove Enfield fell ill by being around asbestos, they said there's enough evidence to revive the suit.

Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JeffSGoldman. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

Investigators released a sketch of a possible suspect.

Investigators released a sketch of a suspect in the killing (Photo: ECPO) 

NEWARK -- Authorities on Thursday offered a $20,000 reward for information about the slaying of a Newark Liberty International Airport baggage handler who was gunned down in an apparent robbery on his way home from work.

Bruce Santos, 26, was shot in downtown Newark late Feb. 27, 2013 as he waited at a bus stop at Broad and Camp streets, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. He was rushed to University Hospital after being discovered by a passerby, who flagged down a police officer.

Santos died about 30 minutes later at the hospital, authorities said. Detectives suspect he was the victim of a robbery.

The prosecutor's office released a sketch of a suspect shortly after the killing. Authorities described the suspect as a man in his 20s with dreadlocks.

Santos, of Newark, may have tried to fight off his attacker and was possibly knocked down by his killer before the shooting, according to police documents obtained by The Star-Ledger.

Sheriff Armando Fontoura's Crime Stoppers Program offered the reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.

Anyone with information was urged to call the prosecutor's office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force tips line at 1-877-TIPS-4EC or 1-877-847-7432.

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You want your school to have one of these polls to determine the four best athletes to ever attend

For the third straight summer, NJ Advance Media will feature best-ever-athlete polls for schools all over N.J. to select the Mount Rushmore of athletics for schools they care about.  And this year we're bumping the number of schools to 20.

Which schools? Well, that's half up to you. This year, we've selected 10 schools ourselves (list below) and we're leaving the selection of the other 10 to be determined by your voting. Eight schools will be selected in the statewide poll below. One school will be selected from a poll for South Jersey Times-area schools, and one will be selected from a poll for Times, Trenton-area schools.

We'll send reporters to the 20 schools to dig into athletic archives, interview key alums and school historians to come up with a list of the top all-time athletes (and coaches) from those schools. Over a five-week period starting July 5, we'll again leave the selecting to you in polls to determine the top four - the four best-of-the-best athletes to put on each school's athletics Mount Rushmore.

What else you need to know:
• The voting options below aren't final - if you don't see your school and want it to be in the running, write a comment below, and we'll add it. Then, it's up to you to round up the votes. That's how Piscataway became a Rushmore school in 2015.
• Check how these turn out. Here are the results from the 2015 schools, and here are last summer's results. (Note: Schools who have already participated are ineligible to go again and are left out of these selection polls.)
• The Rushmore polls for the selected schools will happen four at a time over a five-week span starting on or around July 5.

Important: We know you take these polls seriously. We do, too. We encourage you to come back and vote often. Please note, the poll will view rapid-fire voting from any individual IP as an attack and will put that IP in a time out.

You can do anything you want within reason to win these polls - make your case in the comments below, use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, MySpace, carrier pigeons, telegrams ... whatever you want to get the vote out. BUT any tech-based method designed to rack up votes will be flagged and those votes will be thrown out.

• South Jersey Times-area selection poll
• Times, Trenton-area selection poll

Statewide selection

Already selected as Rushmore schools this year are Delbarton, Kingsway, Linden, Manasquan, Millburn, Montclair, Ridgewood, Scotch Plains-Fanwood, Toms River North and Wayne Hills.

The list below is alphabetical. The top eight finishers will be selected as Mount Rushmore schools this summer. Voting closes at noon on Wednesday, May 31.

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Irvington High School finished second and Moorestown Friends School took third.

TRENTON -- The Hightstown High School consumer team captained by Jasman Singh and coached by teacher David Teleposky won the 21st Annual N.J. Division of Consumer Affairs High School Consumer Bowl on Tuesday.

The team scored 75 points in the final and bested Irvington High School, who placed second with 55 points and Moorestown Friends School, who took third with 45 points, the Consumer Affairs division announced.

Irvington and Moorestown are consumer bowl powers. Mooretown took the tile last year and Irvington has won four state titles since 2010.

"The competition was tight through three rounds, with Hightstown maintaining a lead through the second and third series of questions," the division said in an announcement.

"The lightning round, with questions on such topics as beauty parlor regulations and rent-to-own businesses, provided the Mercer County school with enough of a cushion to pull out the victory."

Consumer bowl competitions quiz teams on New Jersey consumer protection laws in a game show format, with layers buzzing in to answer questions from a moderator.

Other consumer topics include home improvement contractors, fraudulent charities, credit repair and reporting, charitable giving and consumer fraud, the division said.

Hightstown prevailed through 20 local, county and regional competitions involving 74 New Jersey high school teams.

They won the Mercer County title in March, and beat Voorhees High School from Hunterdon County in a final run-off at the Central Jersey Consumer Bowl Championship in April.

Teleposky said the competition provided his students with not only knowledge but also life lessons. "The students preparing for the Consumer Bowl itself has definitely helped in their own lives," he said.

"We are thrilled that 74 New Jersey schools think it is vitally important to educate their students to recognize scams and know their rights as consumers, Consumer Affairs Director Steve Lee said.

"These efforts will pay off. These students now know how to protect themselves and protect their families from scammers and bad deals. We're proud of them for what they've accomplished," Lee said.

Also on the Hightstown team were: Shivam Verma; Sree Chinta; Dhruv Samdani; Devashru Patel; Steven Cohen; and John Titicula.

On the Irvington team: Captain Oluchukwu Ibe; Obodai Annan; Miraj Seepersad; Faith Northern; and Zaynah Mohammed.

The Moorestown Friends team: Captain Alex Horn; Bailey Butterworth; John Barton; Alex Barrett and Joshua Strauss.

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The former Bloomfield firefighter was charged in Wisconsin.

KENOSHA, Wis. -- A former New Jersey firefighter convicted on child pornography charges will reportedly spend five years behind bars.

Donald Jervis, 53, was given the minimum sentence as part of a plea deal in the case, The Kenosha News reported.

Jervis, a retired Bloomfield firefighter who now lives in Wisconsin, had been charged after AOL alerted authorities that his email account was attempting to send child pornography. Investigators said Jervis was found to have hundreds of sexually explicit photos of children on his computer and phone, and multiple videos featuring children engaging in various sexual activities.

Jervis, a married father, had been trying to send the images to his girlfriend in New Jersey, investigators said.

According to the Kenosha News, Jervis had argued he downloaded the child pornography by mistake, and was not sexually attracted to children. The ex-firefighter, who had responded to the World Trade Center in the aftermath of September 11, retired in 2015. According to state pension records, Jervis earned $144,166 a year as a firefighter in New Jersey.

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The tickets each matched four of five numbers and the Powerball, lottery officials said.

Essex may have just become the luckiest county in New Jersey.

Two stores in Essex County sold back-to-back $50,000 winning lottery tickets over the past week, New Jersey Lottery officials have announced.

The first winning Powerball ticket was sold for the May 13 drawing at Morgan's Liquors on Irvington Avenue in South Orange, officials said. The second, for the May 17 drawing, was sold at the 7-Eleven on Passaic Avenue in Nutley - less than 10 miles away.

Both winning tickets matched four of the five white ball numbers and the red powerball, lottery officials said.

Reached Thursday, Mandeep Singh, manager at Morgan's, said he hadn't heard about the nearby winner, but called the proximity of the tickets, "exciting."

In the six months since the store started selling lottery tickets, Singh said it has already had a $10,000 scratch off winner, and this $50,000 Powerball winner.

"It's good for us," he said. "It'll boost our business, for sure."

May 13's winning numbers were 17, 20, 32, 63, and 68, powerball 19. May 17's were 4, 11, 39, 45, and 48, powerball 9. Other winners across the state won prizes of up to $500 in the May 13 drawing, and $300 in the May 17, officials said.

The jackpot for the next Powerball drawing, on May 20, will be $228 million.

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An Indonesian Christian who overstayed his U.S. visa and has lived in the U.S.for 16 years

ELIZABETH -- An undocumented immigrant who said he escaped religious persecution was deported to Indonesia Thursday afternoon after living in the U.S. for 16 years. 

Arino Massie, of Metuchen, was removed from the country around noon after being held at the Elizabeth Detention Center since last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs officials confirmed. 

Massie leaves behind his wife and a 13-year-old U.S. citizen son who was in school when his father boarded a plane. 

"My heart is broken," Massie's close friend Ang Li, also of Metuchen, told NJ Advance Media. "I don't know what to do, I don't know what to say to (his son)."

Supporters of Massie, led by Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale, rallied outside the Elizabeth Detention Center Thursday afternoon but Massie was already headed for Indonesia, supporters said. 

"There's no reason to send him away right now, he's absolutely not a criminal," said Kaper-Dale, who has fought for Indonesian Christians in his community for more than a decade. "These are family people who happen to have final deportation orders."

Kaper-Dale, who is running for governor, said President Trump's executive orders on immigration widened the net of who would be prioritized for deportation. That now includes people like Massie, who were ordered deported years ago but do not have a criminal record and were allowed to remain in the country so long as they periodically checked in with immigration officials. 

"Our folks got caught up in that new dragnet," Kaper-Dale said. 

Massie was one of four Indonesian Christian men who were held by ICE last week after they checked in with immigration officials in Newark. 

The three other men -- Rovani Wangko, Saul Timisela and Oldy Manopo -- remain in detention.  

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone sent a letter to ICE on Thursday urging them to use discretion and allow the men to remain in the country under their previous agreement. 

He said the men faced deportation to a country with "a record of persecuting religious minorities for practicing their beliefs."

ICE spokesman Luis Martinez did not comment further on Massie's case beyond confirming his deportation. 

"We have to stay aggressive, we have to stay ebullient, we have to stay unapologetic to the forces that are standing against our families," said Archange Antoine, of Faith in New Jersey, which has organized large rallies to support immigrants facing deportation.

'Please don't deport him'

Kaper-Dale of The Reformed Church of Highland Park said Massie's attorney filed a stay of removal last week that would allow Massie to remain in the country. That request was denied Thursday morning and hours later, Massie was boarding a plane. 

Li showed a reporter the last text message he received from Massie around noon saying, "Thank you guys! God bless."

"I'm crying, very sad," Li said. "This is the dream land, we came here to have a better future." Massie worked in a refrigeration factory and was the breadwinner for his family. Li said the community was figuring out how to support the family financially. 

At the rally Thursday, about 50 supporters chanted "let our people go!" and held signs that read: "family breaking president - get out" and "you are hurting children.

One three-year-old boy held a bright pink sign that said: "family is love, keep family together."

"How many U.S. citizen children will have their lives destroyed?" Liz Estes of The Reformed Church of Highland Park asked. "What is the human cost?"

When Massie was detained last week, his son, Joel Massie wrote a diary entry that was shared with NJ Advance Media. 

"Thinking about this makes me cry because it makes me think about the 13 years I've spent with my dad who is about to disappear from my life," Joel wrote. "Please don't deport him."

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NEWARK   38-year-old city man was arrested in Irvington Thursday and charged with offenses including attempted murder, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose said. Shaheed Clark allegedly shot the victim the morning of May 5 at West Runyon Street and Seymour Avenue. The same victim was shot, also allegedly by Clark, Aug. 1, 2015 at Elizabeth and Custer avenues, Ambrose said,...

NEWARK   38-year-old city man was arrested in Irvington Thursday and charged with offenses including attempted murder, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose said.

Shaheed Clark allegedly shot the victim the morning of May 5 at West Runyon Street and Seymour Avenue. The same victim was shot, also allegedly by Clark, Aug. 1, 2015 at Elizabeth and Custer avenues, Ambrose said,

At the time of his arrest, Clark was in possession of two handguns, a rifle, 1,438 envelopes of heroin, 325 vials of cocaine and more than 9 grams of marijuana, Ambrose said.