Grand Jury Report-Detective Frederick Toto

Grand Jury report on the fatal shooting of 33-year-old Detective Frederick Toto on July 14, 1967, who was shot as police were responding to a larger gathering in front of the Scudder Homes Project. The report states that Toto’s death was “possibly as a result of the renewed sniper fire” coming from the Project building that police were firing at. The Grand Jury found “no cause for indictment.” — Credit: Newark Public Library