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An East Orange native was charged with sucker-punching and killing a Paterson man in a city smoke shop.
Charles A. Richardson, 34, of Paterson was wanted for murder when East Orange police arrested him following a traffic stop Sunday night, authorities said.
Law enforcement sources said Richardson had gotten into a sidewalk despite with Tremaine Thomas, 43, outside the Pull Up 2 smoke shop on 10th Avenue the afternoon of June 20.
Richardson followed Thomas into the store and cold-cocked him with his fist in the head, knocking him out, they said.
City firefighters tried to revive Thomas before he was taken with severe head trauma to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead about three hours later.
Paterson police officer Spencer Finch released pending charges
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