73-year old Joanne Chesimard accomplice was sentenced in 1974 to life plus 30 years
BY ALICIA CRUZ
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
A Trenton man convicted of the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper has been denied parole ... again Tuesday.
Sundiata Acoli born Clark Edward Squire, now 73, has been serving a life sentence at the Trenton State Prison after he was convicted in the 1974 shooting of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Forster and sentenced to life plus 30 years.
In May 1973, while he, Joanne Chesimard, Zayd Shakur and Assata Shakur (nee Joanne Deborah Byron), all fellow Black Liberation Army members, were driving along the New Jersey Turnpike, they were pulled over by Trooper Werner Forster for a routine traffic stop that evolved into a bloodbath that left Trooper Forster dead and another trooper wounded.
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