FILE - In this Monday Aug. 6, 2007 file photograph, Shalga Hightower, right, is consoled by family friend Cathy Rainey, at Hightower's Newark, N.J. home, as she talks about her daughter, Iofemi Hightower, 20, who was killed in an execution-style shooting of four young friends in a schoolyard late Saturday night, Aug. 4, 2007. Iofemi Hightower, Terrance Aeriel, 18, and Dashon Harvey, 20 were killed. Aeriel's 19-year-old sister, Natasha, was wounded. The trial of Gerardo Gomez,the last of six defendants in the triple murder case, is scheduled to begin Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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