Amir Tarpley loved music, his mother said. Like his father, he was an artist and he even planned to put out an album last month. Marianne Brooks recalled her son as a smart, well-liked man. He was also the father of a 1-year-old child. “Amir was going to school for art. He was going to college. Amir was not a bad kid. Amir was a good kid,” she said. During a time when his family should have been celebrating his accomplishments, they gathered instead in a Gloucester County courtroom on Friday morning to see the men charged in his death. Tarpley, 19, of Paulsboro, was stabbed in the chest during a fight outside his home on May 20. Paulsboro residents (from top, left to right) Aaron Hickox, Archie Hickox, Kishon Pierce, all 18, and Arteste J. Ruffin, 42, are charged in connection with a fight that ended in a fatal stabbing. (Salem County Correctional Facility) Four men were originally charged with aggravated assault in the case, but Kishon Pierce’s charges were upgraded to murder on Thursday. Pierce, 18, also of Paulsboro, allegedly stabbed Tarpley during the fight on West New Street. Paulsboro residents Aaron Hickox and Archie Hickox, who are 18-year-old twins,… Read full this story
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